123 kāppiam” and Nanpūl.” As far as ‘Tonnii Vilakkam' is concerned, Viramāmunivar, the author of the Text itself, gives the commentary also. There also we find the meaning of these words.” But it is the Tamil Lexicon published by the University of Madras that gives the meaning of these words, for that matter, to all the Tamil words, as fas as possible, in the most exhaustive manner. The scholarly treatise on the one-lettered words by an unknown author already referred to and the learned articles by Prof. T. P. Meenakshisundaranar in Kalaikkalafician on most of the Tamil alphabet are of considerable help in listing the meanings of the one-lettered words also. With the help of all these sources and my own observations, I have tried to compile the meanings of seventy-eight one-lettered words, as will be seen in the forthcoming pages. Tamil word - Meaning with Transliteration - 1. அ Base of the Demonstrative Pronoun (! expressing the remoter person or thing. - 2. Prefix to nouns expressing remoteness. 3. Prefix expressing world-wide eminence. 4. God.” 5. Vișnus 6. Brahmā. 7. Beauty. 8. Drieded ginger. 9. Long peper. 2. ஆ 1. Ah! expressing pity, regret. 2. 3. Ah! expressing wonder, admiration. 3. An exclamation expressive of contempt. 4. An interrogrative termination. 5. An interjection expressing sultriness. 6. An interjection expressing recollection 7. Either......... or. , 8. becoming. 9. Female of the ox, the sombar and the buffalo. 10. Bull. I 1. Soul 12. Ebony. 13. way, manner. 14. As far as upto. 15. desire”. ஆ...தல் 16. To come into existence. 17. To Δί (as verb intra- happen, occur. 18. To be done nsitive) finished, complicated, exhausted. 19. To be fit, proper, agreeable,
