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188 THE PRIMARY CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD

tƒŒga˜ and taŒga˜ are also used in the second person in the sense of your honour and of your honour respectively, when addressing persons worthy of high degree of reverence.

Formation of Demonstratives

The remote demonstrative sound ƒ has given rise to the following bases, and the proximate and frontal demonstrative sounds also have produced similar ones. From them have been derived many interjections, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns.

                ƒm-ƒn-(ƒl)-(ƒ˜)
          ƒm-ƒv-ƒku. ƒl-ƒdu.

Adjectival Prefixes:

              ƒ, that; this; e.g. ƒyidai, that place or time.

Adverbs:
            ƒn, there, in, here.
           ƒ–gu, there, …Œgu, here, ‡Œgu, in front of me.

Cf. pƒku-pƒŒgu, side.
           ƒ–du, there, -du, here.

Cf. t†‰-t†–du, to dig.

Pronouns:- ƒn, that place, n, this place, this world.
ƒdu, that, du, this
The liquid ‘1’ often changes into ‘t’ or ‘d’.

e.g. mel-medu, soft. Pal-padu-pattu, ten.
kalambam-kadambam, mixture.
šalaŒgai-šadaŒgai, tiny tinkling bells.
ƒme, she (Te.). Tamil words with ‘am’ base have become extinct.

Naturally, all sounds produced by the most primitive people or the earliest Tamilians were long, and became shortened much later, after many generations, and that is why some demonstrative words have no shortened forms.
e.g. ƒdu, there, …–du, here.