(2) To vowel in the first syllable of ‘nundai’ is a short ‘u’ (67).
The short ‘u’ is always final.

     (3) The consonant ‘v’ is the final letter of four words (81).

     There are five words ending in the consonant ‘v’.

     The components of the compound numeral ‘to––‡Šu’ are
‘onbadu’ and ‘pattu’. (445)

     to-du+n‡Šu=to––‡Šu,orig. 900.

     Originally, to–du was the Tamil word for nine. Owing to some
unknown circumstances, it became obsolete and tonbadu ninety,
was used instead, and likewise, to––‡Šu, nine hundred, was brought
down, to do duty for tonbadu and to˜˜ƒyiram, nine thousand, for
to––‡Šu, to–badu, has altered into onbadu, and the number ‘nine
thousand’ is expressed by the redundant phrase ‘onbadinƒyiram’.
Tolkƒppiyar, himself using the word to-du in a different context,
has mis-split to––‡Šu and to˜˜ƒyiram.

     (5) The components of the compound numeral ‘to˜˜ƒyiram’ are
‘onbadu’ and ‘n‡ru’

     to–du + ƒyiram= to˜˜a!yiram orig. 9000 (463)

     (6) ‘num’ (your) is nominative from which ‘n…yir’ (you) is
derived. (326)

     n‡m-num, n…+ir=n…yir.

     (7) The components of ‘v„–avƒ’ are ‘v—kai’ and ‘avƒ’.
v„–+avƒ = v„–avƒ

     (8) ‘seyyum’, as a relative participle, is both present and
future.

     šeyki‹Ša or šeykiŠa is the present relative participle.