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Addition
of Number-Suffixes to Verbal Themes
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Nouns of Agency:
kol (to kill)+i=kolli, killer.
ve——u
(to cut)+i=ve——i, cutter.
The singular suffix i is common to the three
genders masculine, feminine and neuter. It represented the later ivan,
iva˜ and idu, as a pronoun, in primitive
times.
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Addition
of Gender-Suffixes to Nouns
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Conjugted
Nouns or Appellative Verbs:
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‡ran,
‡rƒn,
native of a village (m.sing.)
‡ra˜,
‡rƒ˜,
Do. (f.sing.)
‡rar, ‡rƒr,
natives of a village (m.f., or epicene pl.)
ka––an, ka––ƒn,
he who has eye or eyes.
ka––a˜,
ka––ƒ˜,
ka––i, she who has eye or
eyes.
ka––ar, ka––ƒr,
they that have eye or eyes (ep.pl.)
ka––i, that which has eye
or eyes.
ka––iga˜,
those which have eye or eyes.
v…——ukkƒran,
master of a house.
v…——ukkƒri,
mistress of a house.
v…——ukkƒrar,
owners of a house (ep.pl.)
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The singular suffix i of conjugated nouns is common
to both feminine and neuter.
All epicene plurals can be used as masculine
plurals also, but not as feminine plurals, for which the rational plural
suffix ar or ƒr must be superadded to the
singular form, as ka––iyar
and v…——ukkƒriyar.
The plural suffix ka˜
was originally restricted to the irrational class,and its extension to
the rational class was solely due to the introduction of the polite form
of speech, which necessitated the use of double plural in respect of superiors.
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