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. Third letter and vowel of the Tamilalphabet, the close front lax unround vowel inTamil; மூன்றுமுயிரெழுத்து.
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. Symbol for the fraction ½, whichsymbol is now usu. written as
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part. 1. (a) Euphonic prothesisof the nature of an on-glide in Sanskritic wordsbeginning with ய, ர, ல, as in
இயந்திரம் forயந்திரம்,
இராகம் for ராகம்,
இலங்கை for
லங்கை (b) Euphonic medial anaptyxis coming in Sanskritic words in order to separate conjunct consonantal sounds of which the latter parthappens to be `y', `r', `l', as in வாக்கியம், கிரமம்,சுக்கிலம். (நன். 149.) (c) The half-vowel soundof the close front lax unrounded vowel, heard inthe sentence sandhi when the half-roundedclose lax back-vowel at the end of a wordcombines with the initial semi-vowel `y' of thenext word beginning with `ய', as in குரங்கியாது.(நன். 93.) (d) A glide sound coming in externalsandhi between the absolute final consonantalsounds `ñ', `n', `n', `m', `ṉ', `r', `l', `v', `ḻ' and`ḷ', and the initial `y' of words beginning withthe semi-vowel sound, as in மண்ணியாது, `manni-yātu'. (நன். 206.) 2. Demonstr.; (a) Prefixvowel found in the base
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n. (Astrol.) Letter representing owl,in pañca-paṭci; பஞ்சபட்சிகளுள் ஆந்தையைக் குறிக்கும் எழுத்து. (பிங்.)