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Pairs with an added suffix, usually ÂÕ or ¤½Õ.

Weak verbs (with futures in  v form the causative this way. Strong verbs, with future markers in ¤¤ pp, have a causative formative ¤½Õ ppi. Both then become members of Class VI.

For some speakers, these kinds of derived causatives are appropriate only for a literary style of Tamil; others use them in ST, too.



Vasu Renganathan
Sat Nov 2 21:16:08 EST 1996