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Some Dravidian Prefixes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Edwin H. Tuttle
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Brâhui regularly has a for ancient short e, and e for ancient weak stressed ai. Brâhui kane (me) corresponds to a blend of Tamil dative enakku and accusative ennai, with the dative-formant prefixed instead of being suffixed: . This inversion of the usual arrangement, parallel with English thereby = by that, is oneof the few cases where a prefix is plainly visible in Dravidian.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 2-3 , January 1936 , pp. 813 - 815
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1936

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References

1 In the following remarks, as in my other writings on Dravidian, I use j with the of Dutch j.