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Relative Compounds in Tamil

A. Boologarambai, Ph.D.

Introduction

Compounds are the combination of two words. In grammar, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. are combined together to form compounds. Tolkaappiyar in his traditional grammar Tolkkappiyam classified the compounds into six types. In Tamil, there is another compound which is named as Doublets by P. S. Subramanyam (1984), Relative Compounds by K. Rangan, and ina aTukkuccoRkaL by A. Srinivasan.

The purpose of this paper is to high light the syntactic structures of the Relative Compounds and the semantic meanings conveyed by them.

In the Relative Compound construction, the combination of the words may be Noun+Noun, Noun+Verb, Verb+Noun and Verb+Verb. The following are the examples for this type of compounds.

i) viiDu vaasal - Noun+Noun viiDu means "House" and vaasal means "the front portion of the house". These two are combined together to frame a compound to give the meaning "Property," which is new to the basic meaning of the component words.

ii) uppu cappu - Noun+Verb. Uppu means "salt" cappu means "To lick." These two are combined together to frame a Relative compound which means "Taste," which is completely different to the basic meanings of the constituent words.

iii) koTTu meeLam - Verb+Noun. koTTu means "To beat or tap with knuckles." meeLam means "One kind of musical instrument used in various celebrations". These two words are combined together to frame a compound which gives the meaning "The publicity for the celebration".

iv) ONDi Othunki - Verb+Verb. ONDi means "To hide or be alone." Othunki means "To leave aside". These two are combined together to frame a Compound, which indicates the meaning "Without oneself getting involved in anything".

The Noun+Noun construction is further divided into

  1. Parallel Nouns combination,
  2. Opposite Nouns combination,
  3. Related Nouns combination
  4. Small + Big Nouns combination
  5. Big + Small Nouns combination
  6. Body parts Nouns combination
  7. Resultive nouns combination
  8. Different nouns combination and
  9. Opposite nouns combination etc.

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Dravidian University
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