| p†ŠŠi,potti
pƒ——an |
Grand-
}father |
pƒi,pƒtti |
Grand-
mother |
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|
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|
tƒttƒ,tƒdai
appaccan
appƒ——an |
}Paternalgrand-father |
ammƒcci
amiai }
appƒy
appƒttai}
|
Maternal
grandmother
Paternal
grand- mother |
| |
|
|
|
| p‡——an, |
Great-
grandfather grandmother |
p‡——i, |
Great-grandfather
„ |
| |
|
|
|
†——an
šeyƒn |
} Great-great-
great-
|
o——i
š,,yƒl} |
Great-grand
mother |
akkacci and appƒttai
originally denoted a grandmother, but now they do an elder sister, properly
the eldest.
There has been a worng tendency among the
common people, either to change the form of many of the names of relationship
by adding gender-suffix to vocatives, or to use the vocatives themselves
as nominatives. Such forms, being un- grammatical, have to be regarded
as corruptions.
| e.g. |
appƒ,
aiyƒ |
|
| |
ammƒ,
ƒttƒ |
}Vocatives
|
| |
appƒr,
a––ƒr |
|
| |
ammƒ˜,
ƒttƒ˜ |
}Vocatives
with gender-suffix |
Some names of relationship corresponding
to those of the opposite gender,
seem to have become extinct.
e.g. appƒ——i, ammƒccan.
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Differentiation
of Species or Varieties
|
The
eight varieties of the horse species described in Tiruvi˜aiyƒdal
Purƒ–am
are as follows:
puravi, that which jumps over a high wall
or fence.
kudirai, that which leaps over a long distance.
pƒdalam, that
whose neck and chest are very broad.
k†dagam (or
k†–am), that whose neck is triangular
in shape.
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