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Originally Posted by FloraiPuyal Originally Posted by srivatsan Originally Posted by FloraiPuyal hmmm.. okay. you can probably find different words for almost all of those beginning with sa. But what is the other word for "santhi"? If this is not tamil, is the whole of tamil grammar from sanskrit?

"Santhi"....what is that? can you explain it....is it "Sandhi" which means "Union" or "Santhi" the future tense of "be" verb.
Both are Samskritham words...if what you mean is different than these above, pls tell me what is that, I hope I can still get a Tamizh word for that...Sorry, if I had misunderstood. "To meet" or "union" is the tamil meaning. Can you give me an alternate word for this. In tamil grammar, when two words are combined, a character is added as a bridge. This is called as santhi. This word is mentioned in nannool. Of course there are words borrowed from sanskrit into tamil. But not these words. "Santhi" is the term used in Sanskrit grammar. The term in Tamil grammar is "punarcchi" (புணர்ச்சி), and the grammatical division dealing with these changes is called "punariyal".

You can also use "punarcchi" (and related words such as "punartal") in non-grammatical contexts, to refer to meeting or union. In ancient Tamil prosody, for example, one of the poetical divisions which dealt with one lover longing for the other and grieving over their separation was called புணராவிரக்கம் (punaravirakkam). பகுதி விகுதி இடைநிலை சாரியை
சந்தி விகாரம் ஆறினும் ஏற்பவை
முன்னிப் புணர்ப்ப முடியுமெப் பதங்களும்
- நன்னூல்

Punarchi is the process. Santhi is the term to denote the character. A root word is followed by santhi, idainilai, saariyai, vikuthi. Santhi is the very basis of word formation in tamil. If santhi is not tamil, what do you call the character that comes in between pakuthi and idainilai?
eg.,
நடந்தனன் = நட + ந் + த் + அன் + அன் (பகுதி, சந்தி, இடைநிலை, சாரியை, விகுதி)

(or do you want to claim that nannool is translated from sanskrit and tamil has no grammar on her own? )

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