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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JUNE, 1909.
Tam. arito cat' is in Can, hari (vide Kittel's Kannada Dictionary, page 2, for more examples)...
(2) Pr. Dray. Anal a e, later weakened to i, a.
Pr. Drav, final a which becomes e in Canarese and as in Tamil, was further weakened in Canarese either to i or to a; e.ge
Tam. balai "to weed' is in Can. kase and kali. Tam, larai 'stain' is in Can. kare and kari. Tam. karai" to call' is in Can. kare and kari. Tam, kadai to churn 'is in Can. kade and kaời. again : Tam, malai' mountain' is Can. male and mala. .
Tam. slai leat' ..... ele and ela.
Tam. kanai 'stick' ..... kane and kana. It may be noted here that the weakening of e-into i' is found in verbal forms and the weakening of e into a in nouns.
(3) aid, o in infloxionial forms of Canarese. The genitive and the socusative signs become lengthened, Gen. asa and the acc. am ad ; again avam.he' appears as avom. Plural sign ar or. (ride Kittel's Canarese Grammur, pages 24, 189, 212 and 47, 51, 58, 58, 111, and 112).
(4) a by contraction, 6. g.: agape ladle' becomes ape and hape.
(6) ai i shortened) in the formation at second person singular of the future and imperfect :-.9., iddi, iruvi, etc. (vide Kittel's Kannada Dictionary, page 178).
(6) Tamil.
(1) In Tamil the medial a, which is not in the first syllable, is generally pronounced as æ, thongh written a :- e. g., madal is madæl & petal'. It is also written as e by the vulgar people.
(3.) Pr. Dravidian Anal a is preserved in Tamil in a few words as kara to milk, ira. to beg', nada to walk. These have finale in Canarese and Tala and a in Telugu. This final a of Tamil is, hence, very probably a weakening of ai.
(8) a sā, ö by contraction ; e. g.:vinnavar s viņpôr "gods." periyavar periydr and perigor elders.' shappar sāppai. Here the contraction is due to the disappearance of medial h or u.
(4) The final a Pr. Dravidian a is always written as a and pronounced as @, when it becomes medial by the addition of suffixes; .. g, walas hill, but malanddus hilly, country' (vide Nansdl-Setram, 128 ).
