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augment and sometimes omit it. The verbs of the former class appear in the Lexicon as ƒஅண்ணு-, அள்ளு-, and of the latter, as ƒ கொள்(ளு)-, விள் (ளு)-,
17,
In the case of verbs like கேள்-, நில் -, their hyphenated forms with தல் show the final and initial and initial letter unchanged; while the forms they take according to Sandi rules are given in square brackets.
18.
Causative forms which can be easily made suffixes like பி, வி, are not generally given in the Lexicon
19.
Periphrastic formations, made with auxiliary verbs like. இடு-, கொள்-, etc., are not generally given in the Lexicon. But, under the main word s, their character as auxiliary verbs, is mentioned.
20.
Where there are several homonyms of the same spelling and only one of them is a verb or a noun that homonym is referred to in other laces in the Lexicon, both in derivations and in meanings without the superior number as the reference is clear even without it, e.g., கதி , காழ்-,
21.
(i)
A large number of such words of words of Sanskrit, Arabic and other foreign origin are found in use, both literary and colloquial; and the modern tendency is to adopt these loan-words with their original spellings.
(ii)
Such words are sometimes adopted in Tamil works with their foreign spelling slightly modified, but without fully tamilising them. In some cases, the sense also undergoes a change, ஷ e.g., ஸர்வாணி, ஸாஹேப், ஹேட்டு
(iii)
some of these words thorough in common use use no corresponding tamilised forms, e.g, ஜகா ஜுப்பா,
II. The Transliteration
1.
Every catch-word has been transliterated into Roman script for the benefit of non -Tamilians.The transliteration exhibits only the equivalent of the written word. A phonetic representation of the word is not attempted. As only the radical forms of verbs are given the தல் or த்தல் added to the stem is not transliterated.
2.
The composition of compound words is made clear by distinctly marking off, with hyphens, the
aru-v-uru
itai-p-patu-
in-n-icai.
Though all verbs can be made the bases of corresponding verbal nouns by the addition of appropriate noun suffixes, only the most important verbal nouns and those most frequently in us, are included in the Lexicon.
3.
The key to the transliteration is given separately in a table.
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