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It is evident that the “incomplete words’ like kuru are verb StCITTS, * 1 3. Verb stems occur as noun attributes or verb attributes in Sangam literature. Thus, caa ‘to die’ occur as a noun attribute in caakku t ti “to die – one who stabs “one who stabs (others to death’ and as a verb attribute in taay caappirakkum ‘motherto die- will be born” - ‘that which will be born causing the death of the mother’. The reduplicatives also occur as noun attributes and verb attributes. e.g. kuru kuru na tai, ‘very short walk (stepping)” ku rukuru na tantu. “walking with very short steps”. In Modern Tamil, the reduplicatives (without any suffix) occur as noun attributes as in kalakala nakai, ‘resounding laugh’, where as they occur as verb attributes only with the verb attribute suffix ena-/-en ru as in kalakal(a) ena/enru nakai t taam, *(he) laughed resoundingly”. 1.4.1. Except a few forms like tapa tapa- tama tama, “onom, expr. signifying the sound of a drum', kaakaa, the cawing of crow” etc. which are really “imitative of sounds’, all other so ealled onomatopoeia have two entries in the Tamil Lexicon. For example, kalakal(a)enal, “onom. expr. signifying tinkling, elinking’. has an earlier entry in kalakalattal, “to reiterate in sound” etc., which is classified as “verb intransitive”. (Tamil Lexicon Vol II). 1.4.2: The Onomatopoeia are classified as no uns in the Tamil Lexicon. This classification is not based on the particular forms in question but on the ad Îitive-enal. Hoor, (i) even this-enal appears to be the lexicographer’s device for listing, since all other verb stems are listed with the verbal noun sufflix-tal/– t tal as in kapi-ttal, “to bite” etc. However, the lexicographer has ignored o, - 282