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Rh 267267=my lord, 1160095=our lord or father, hibo G= your father, and sui, 151, sor, have all become obsolete. Some classical words like o slu, to 'die', முக்கி, to 'eat', அங்கட்டு, “there', பைய, ' slowly', &c. have now become slang.

Sometimes post-positions were added directly to the roots without the euphonic particles or fuif• For example, Horft bare in for Harflussoru, z% for ஆவினை, 'இல்லாகுக for இல்லையாகுக, கேளலம் for கேட் டறியோம், தம்மென for தாருமென, தட்ப for தடுப்ப, மேயல் for Cuffo, corrfor LitD,&c. The plural termination i is very sparingly used and soit never, the abstract terms வேந்து, அரசு, &c., being perferred to concrete terms to avoid number. The use of distinctive terminations for the seven cases is not strictly adhered to, one or two post-positional particles like go or giei being used for all the seven cases. In fact, no finality concerning the uses of case terminations was attained in practice. This ) or gå is a peculiar particle and it was used to express comparison also ; the expression 116000L.Uli Qurta meant, 'greater than it was before. The present tense did not come into existence. The indefinite past and the indefinite future were the only tenses in use as in Hebrew and other languages. And some of the tense particles like F,961, 6, 4, 51, s. c07 which were then in use have become obsolete, together with 2.5 50 for vi (as in தரூஉந்து for தரும். The post-positio11 ஐ (Vas added to nouns to form verbs in the second person singular. The phrase $1 8512_8607 meant 'you who are the lord