[Tel.] An affix, added to many nouns and adjectives to give them an abstract or a collective force like tva in Sanskrit words, and ness, tion, ment in English words, thus:ndoratanamu government, danditanamu greatness, mancitanamu goodness, pillatanamu childishness, gattitanamu solidity, goppatanamu largeness, mitaritanamu playfulness, gollatanamu the peasantry, the shepherd class, ballitanamu the being a lizard: the being born as a lizard, kaputanamu the farmer class. It is added like-wise to past participles as teliya nitanamu silliness, ignorance. cetakanitanamuawkwardness.