these additives in assigning grammatical categories to forms like kafittal and kalakalattal whereas in the case of kalakalenal, his categorisation is based on the additive-enal. (ii) In the usages cited by the lexicographer, not necessarily the earliest always, only forms with the vero attribute suffix-enenaf-enru occur. Hence it is not the l'amil data” that “fails to show any adverbia! so, ms', as claimed by some scholars (Emeneau op. cit. pp.280) but it is, the Tamil Lexicon that has failad to assign the correct μι ammatical category for the enomatopoetic forms. (iii) This verb attribute suslix-ena/-enru can occur with nouns or verbs, whereasaaka/-aay can occur only with nouns. H eg puliyenappaayntaan, (he) sprang as a tiger' puliyaaka'aayppaayntaan, (he) sprang as a tiger’ atu varumenat terikira tu “it seems as it will come
- a tu varumaaka/aay t terikira tu.
Now, the so-called onomatopoeia, which the verb attribute suffix-ena/-en ru 驚 to be either nouns or verbs. In the earlier entries for such forms, the lexicographer himself has assgined the grammatical category “Verb intransitive” as pointed out earlier. So, these are not nouns. Now, if these are verbs, are they finite verbs, or participles or infinitives or stems? -enaf-enru does not occur with participies or infinitives. e.g. Van tu vantu paart taan, ‘having come, having come, (he) saw” ‘(he) came again and again to see”
- Van tu vant(u) enappaart taan
vaarika vaarikak kafan, “to borrow, to borrow, debt’ ‘the more one borrows, the more the debt". 283
