ഈ താളിൽ തെറ്റുതിരുത്തൽ വായന നടന്നിരിക്കുന്നു
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87. Which are the demonstrative letters?
'A' and 'i' which serve to shew what is remote or near
in either place or time.
| a + tira = a(tra) = (that measure, that much). |
i + tira = i(tra) (= this mea- sure, this much). |
| a + iṭe = a(viṭe) (= that place, there). |
i + iṭe = i(viṭe) (= this place, here). |
88. What demonstrative nouns are formed from these
demonstrative letters?
The most common are:
| Sing | avan (=this man, he). |
Plu. | avar (= those persons, they). |
Sing. | ivan | =this man etc. he, she, it. | Plu. | ivar | = these persons or things, they. |
| avaḷ (= this woman, she). |
ivaḷ | ||||||||
| atu (=that thing, it.) |
ava (=those things, they). |
itu | iva |
89. What peculiarity is there in the declension of 'ava'
and 'iva' and the forms derived from them?
'Ava' and the rest take 'r̥r̥u' as the affix of the sub-
stituted-form.
