Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s38.4

c27.s38.4

†13. *mutā* (*mutu* + *ā*) 'senior, elder' 61.1 *mūtā* (*mūtu* + *ā*) 'senior, elder' 62.1 † These are the only exceptional cases of adjectives occurring as independent words in the Corpus. They are formed from the stems *mutu*/*mūtu* with the addition of the adjectival suffix *-ā*; cf. the genitive suffix *-ā* (23.1, 65.1, 66.1). Neither of these suffixes is attested in LT. See Commentary (61.1, 62.1).