manikufānu=eve ! qānūnu_asāsī galu_aḷā=fai_ot̊ duvas_varu manikufānu vidāḷu_vī-mu=eve .
excellency=END law_basis stone_put.down.CVB=SUCC_lie.PST.PTCP day_amount excellency say.HHON_be.PST-1/2=END
Your excellency! In the days when the [preparation of the] constitution had stalled [lit. ‘had been hooked on a rock’], your excellency said [it].’ (A. Gnanadesikan, pers. comm.; originally from Haama Daily online newspaper, 2010)