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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF URALI
Sam Mohan Lal
3.6.2.4. -tti ~-cenni occurs after the noun stems of type VI (3.3.1.6.)
      dore-tti > doretti    } } ‘English lady’
      dore-cenni > dorecenni}
3.6.2.5. -cci occurs after the noun stems of type VII (3.3.1.7)
      u:ra:i-cci > u:ra:icci ‘Urali woman’
      komui-cci > komui-cci ‘Chettiar woman’
      cakkili-cci > cakkilicci ‘Scavenger woman’
3.6.2.6. -i occurs after the noun stems of type IV (3.3.1.4) and also after the derivative suffix -kar- (3.9)
      ku-i > kui ‘lame woman’
      cigu-i > cigui } ‘deaf woman’
      kivu-i > kivui }
      vaRä-i > vaRäi ‘barren woman’
      orutt-i > orutti ‘one woman’
      dana-kar-i > danakari ‘woman who owns more cattle’
3.6.2.7 -ti occurs after the noun stems of type V (3.3.1.5.)
      iru-ti (5.5.6) > irui ‘irula woman’
3.6.3. Neuter Singular
Number distinction among the neuter is noticed in Urali.
      St. - {-d}
       -d
3.6.3.1. -d occurs after the demonstrative bases a- (3.1.2.1.1.2), i- (3.1.2.1.2.2) and the interrogative base o- (3.1.2.2.2)
      a-d (5.19) > adu ‘that’
      i-d (5.19) > idu ‘this’
      e-d (5.19) > edu ‘which’
3.6.4. Neuter Plural
{-vei}
-vci
3.6.4.1. -vci occurs after the demonstrative bases a- (3.1.2.1.1.2), i- (3.1.2.1.2.2) and the interrogative base e- (3.1.2.2.2)
      a-vei > avei ‘those’
      i-vei > ivei ‘these’
      e-vei > evei ‘which’

                                       

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