-ஆல்

• -ஆல (-āla) — Spoken Tamil (sense 1)
• -ஆ (-ā) — Spoken Tamil (sense 2)

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *-āl. Cognate with Malayalam -ആൽ (-āl).

• IPA^(key): /aːl/

-ஆல் • (-āl)

2. forms the instrumental case.

   ‎கத்தி (katti, “knife”) + ‎-ஆல் (-āl) → ‎கத்தியால் (kattiyāl, “with the knife”)

4. (added to the adverbial participle form of verbs) subjunctive mood suffix.

   ‎வந்து (vantu) + ‎-ஆல் (-āl) → ‎வந்தால் (vantāl, “If (subject) come(s)”)

• Johann Philipp Fabricius (1972), “ஆல்”, in Tamil and English Dictionary, Tranquebar: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Pub. House