Shortened
Demonstrative Bases
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am-an-al;
am-av-aku; al-adu.
Interjections:
annƒ!, look
there! innƒ!, look here! behold!
andƒ!, look
there! indƒ!, behold! look here (and
receive this )!
adƒ!,ad†!,
look there!
idƒ!, id†!,
behold! look here!
Adjectival Prefixes:
Adjectives:
a, that; …
this; u, this or that (in front of me.)
e.g. akkƒlam,
that time.
anda, that; inda, this.
anna, such as that; inna, such as this,
such and such.
Adverbs:
aŒgu, there;
iŒgu, here; uŒgu,
in front of me.
ad†˜-ad†˜i,
there; id†˜-id†˜i,
here.
ud†-ud†˜i,
in front of me.
(ambu)-ambar, there; (imbu)-imbar, here.
(umbu)-umbar, in front of me above.
a‹Šu, then;
i‹Šu, now.
alli (K.), there; illi (K.), here.
Tamil words with ‘al’ base have become extinct.
ava–,
there; iva–, here; uva–,
in front of me above.
inn„, at this very moment. innum, yet, yet
more. ini, after this moment, hereafter.
As forwardness is upwardness to soaring
birds and growing plants, the frontal demonstrative has also acquired
the meaning of upwardness or altitude.
Pronouns:
As the Lemurian Tamils were a highly cultured
and philosophically advanced people, they highly esteemed the faculty
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