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**radikal** · 05-13-2006, 10:44 AM

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சந்தி விகாரம் ஆறினும் ஏற்பவை
முன்னிப் புணர்ப்ப முடியுமெப் பதங்களும்
- நன்னூல்

What is your point? The nannul uses "santhi", and modern Tamil grammatical terminology being derived from the nannul, we call the inserted morpheme "santhi". That is beside the point. The question asked was whether there was a native Tamil term that could be equivalent to "santhi", and the answer is yes, the term is "punarcchi".

Let me put it this way. Tolkappiyar says that Tamil words do not begin with "ca". "canthi" begins with a "ca." The seeming contradiction can be resolved in one of three ways.

1. Tolkappiyar was an idiot who didn't know what he was talking about.
2. Tolkappiyar deliberately and maliciously included a rule in his work he knew to be false.
3. In Tolkappiyar's day, the "santhi" had a different name.

Wouldn't you agree that (3) is the likeliest option? Given that nearly all the terminology associated with santhi even today is derived from the "punar-" root: that division of grammar is called "punariyal", it seems to me to be quite likely that that was the term originally used to refer to the added morpheme. And that is all I was trying to say.

05-13-2006, 10:44 AM	#23
radikal Join Date Oct 2005 Age 54 Posts 4,523 Senior Member	பகுதி விகுதி இடைநிலை சாரியை சந்தி விகாரம் ஆறினும் ஏற்பவை முன்னிப் புணர்ப்ப முடியுமெப் பதங்களும் - நன்னூல் What is your point? The nannul uses "santhi", and modern Tamil grammatical terminology being derived from the nannul, we call the inserted morpheme "santhi". That is beside the point. The question asked was whether there was a native Tamil term that could be equivalent to "santhi", and the answer is yes, the term is "punarcchi". Let me put it this way. Tolkappiyar says that Tamil words do not begin with "ca". "canthi" begins with a "ca." The seeming contradiction can be resolved in one of three ways. 1. Tolkappiyar was an idiot who didn't know what he was talking about. 2. Tolkappiyar deliberately and maliciously included a rule in his work he knew to be false. 3. In Tolkappiyar's day, the "santhi" had a different name. Wouldn't you agree that (3) is the likeliest option? Given that nearly all the terminology associated with santhi even today is derived from the "punar-" root: that division of grammar is called "punariyal", it seems to me to be quite likely that that was the term originally used to refer to the added morpheme. And that is all I was trying to say.
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