Translation:Tolkappiyam/Coalescence of case-morphemes
The first numbers at the end of the each translation of the verse denote the serial number of the verse of the section and the succeeding second one denotes the serial number of the verse of the chapter of source-book.
30 verses
First section, verses 174 to 203
Translation
- The preceding words with the ending six phonemes – [a], [aa], [u], [uu], [ee] and [au] will coalesce along with the empty-morpheme [in] before the case-morphemes. 174/1
- The word ‘pala’ (meaning several) will coalesce along with the empty-morpheme [var’r’u] before the case-morphemes. 175/2
- The interrogative word ‘yaa’ will also coalesce as above. 176/3
- Demonstrating word ‘athu’ (singular) will coalesce along with the empty-morpheme [an] before case-morpheme. 177/4
- Demonstrating word ‘avai’ (plural) will coalesce along with the empty-morpheme [var’r’u] eliding its ending vowel [ai] before case-morpheme. 178/5
- Interrogative word ‘yaavai’ (plural) will coalesce along with the empty-morpheme [var’r’u] eliding its ending vowel [ai] before case-morpheme. 179/6
- The word ‘n”ii’ (meaning ‘you’) will coalesce eliding the length of its initial (becoming short as n”ii > n”i) before case-morpheme. 180/7
- The words ending in [au] will coalesce with empty-morpheme before case-morpheme. 181/8
- The name of trees ending with the vowels [a] and [aa] will coalesce with empty-morpheme [aththu] before case-morpheme. 182/9
- The preceding words ending with the consonants [nj] and [n”] will coalesce with the empty-morpheme [in] before case-morpheme. 183/10
- Demonstrative word ‘av’ (plural) eliding its ending consonant coalesces with the empty-morpheme [var’r’u] before case-morpheme. 184/11
- Other words ending in [v] coalesce with the empty-morpheme [in] before case-morpheme. 185/12
- Words ending in [m] coalesce with the empty-morpheme [athhtu] before case-morpheme. 186/13
- In some cases [m]-ending coalesce with the empty-morpheme [in] before case-morpheme. 187/14
- The word ‘n”um’ (denoting the possessive case ‘you’) coalesces without any addition before case-morpheme. 188/15
- The words coalesce as follows before case-morpheme: the words ‘thaam’ and ‘n”aam’ elide their lengthening sound. The word ‘yaam’ changes its initial [yaa] to [e] in coalescence before case-morpheme. 189/16
- The word ‘ellaam’ (meaning all) coalesce with empty-morpheme [var’r;u] before case-morpheme that possesses the meaningful-morpheme [um]. 190/17
- The word above in the sense of men-class coalesces as above, but with the morpheme of personification [tham]. 191/18
- The words ‘ellaam’ (meaning all) and ‘elliir’ (meaning all of you) coalesce as above having some additional changes as: ‘ellaar-thammaiyum’, ‘ellaarn”mmaiyum’. 192/19
- The words ‘thaan’ and ‘yaan’ (both are singular) coalesce as above (191, 192) 193/20
- The words ‘al”an’ (meaning crematory fire) and ‘pul”an’ (meaning corpse) coalesce with the empty-morphemes either [athhtu] or [in]. 194/21
- The word ‘eez’ (denotes number seven) coalesces with the empty-morpheme [an] in case-coalescence. 195/22
- Preceding word ending in shortened [u] coalesces with the empty-morpheme [in] in almost all cases in case-coalescence. 196/23
- The consonants [t] and [r’] blending with the shortened [u] occurring after a long vowel double their consonants in a case-coalescence. 197/24
- Those of above along with doubling coalesce either with empty-morpheme [in] or without it in case-coalescence. 198/25
- Words denoting numbers goes with the empty morpheme [in] in case-coalescence. 199/26
- The compound word that proceeds with the terms denoting one to ten and succeeds with the term denoting ten agrees with empty-morpheme [an] in case-coalescence. 200/27
- The word ‘yaathu’ (meaning which) eliding its ending vowel, coalesces with the empty-morpheme [an] in case-coalescence. The words, having softening-phoneme [h], denoting demonstration elide their ending phonemes and coalesce with the empty-morpheme [an] in case-coalescence. 201/28
- Words denoting directions coalesce without empty-morpheme, getting dropped their ending phonemes in the preceding-word, in locative (7th) case-coalescence. 202/29
- Those coalescences not defined above go with empty-morpheme or without in case-coalescence. 203/30