DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY

Reference: Asher R E, T C Kumari - Malayalam. Page 382.

Members of one major grammatical category can be derived from those of the same or another category by the addition of suffixes to a stem.

There are in the language large numbers of pairs (and some groups) of words that differ only

• through having a different first syllable, or
• through one having a prefix that the other lacks.

Derived nouns:

• Nouns from nouns
• Nouns from verbs
• Nouns from adjectives
• Nouns from adverbs

Derived Verbs

• Verbs from nouns
• Verbs from verbs

Derived adjectives

• Adjectives from nouns
• adjectives from verbs
• adjectives from adjectives
• adjectives from adverbs

Deriverd adverbs

• adverbs from nouns
• adverbs from verbs
• adverbs from adjectives
• adverbs from adverbs