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adverb āka akiya ākum Ancient Tamil Annamalai University āṇpāl ați attu avan cariyai ceyal ceyyum Cilappatikaram compound noun compound word considered curtailed form ellām Elut enney finite verb formed by adding future tense Hence Ibid indicative mood infinitive form intervocalic Iruvar kilavan king Kural kuriñci literally means marutam mātrā metamorphosed form mēya modified form mullai Murukan negative voice neytal ninkal nominative object oblique case stem onranpal optative mood originally meant palarpāl palavinpal Pandavas panpu-t-tokai PĀRATAM participial noun particle past tense patum periphrastic periphrastic formation peyar-eccam Porul present tense pronounced PROSE ORDER Puram refers relative participle root sandhi Sangam Sanskrit scholars second person plural second person singular sense sixth split stanza suffix atu suffix kal sūtra tadbhava of Skt taken Tamil Language Tēvāram third case-suffix third person tiņais Tirukkural Tolkappiyam Tolkāppiyaṇār ulakam uṭaiya uyartiņai ventan vērrumai-t-tokai verse vinai-y-eccam vocative vowel yām