Some Dravidian Prefixes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2805616 |
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| Authors | Edwin H Tuttle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1936 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 813-815 |
| Publication date | 1936-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00141461 |
| OpenAlex | W1984679041 |
| Language | EN |
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
Dative case · Inversion (geology) · Linguistics · Prefix · Tamil · Ancient Near East History · Geology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Paleontology · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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