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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s5.t3: 7.4.3 Final

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s5.t3

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7.4.3 Final

c27.s5.t3.1

All vowels can occur word-finally in Tamil (*Tol. Eḻu.* 69-70). This general rule is, however, subject to restrictions in respect of some consonant-vowels occurring word-finally (*Tol. Eḻu.* 71-77) considered below in section 7.6.2.2. Only the following 7 vowels occur in final position in the Corpus:

c27.s5.t3.2

| **-a** | *aṟutta* | 'which was carved' | 61.14 |
| **-ā** | *ītā* | 'behold!' | 2.4 |
| **-i** | *aṇṇi* | 'honorific (fem.)' | 83.4.c |
| **-u** | *koḻu* | 'ploughshare' | 43.1.a |
| **-ē** | *kuv-aṉkē* | 'to Kuvaṉ' | 1.2.c |
| **-ai** | *aṟuvai* | 'cloth' | 46.2.a |
| **-ō** | *kō* | 'king' | 61.6 |

c27.s5.t3.3

*ī* occurs word-finally in *visākī* 'a personal name' in a Tamil-Brāhmī inscription on pottery from Kodumanal (K. Rajan 1994: p. 76, Pl. 26).

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