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 — or even, with also added after an - or - vowel, ; and this comes to be recognized by the grammarians as an independent sign, forming denominatives that express desire: thus,  is merry; - (in - love of life);  desires the male (the only quotable examples);  or  longs for honey;  craves milk.

1065. The grammarians reckon as a special class of denominatives in what are really only ordinary ones made from a compound noun-stem having  as its final member: thus,  longs for the chariot (K.: only example found in the older language);  desires wealth;  wishes a son (the only quotable examples); coming from the possessive compounds  etc. And  treats as property is a (sole quotable) example of a stem having the Prakritic causative form (1042 n).

a. Stems of anomalous formation are from,  from , and perhaps  from.

1066. a. A number of denominative stems occur in the Veda for which no corresponding noun-stems are found, although for all or nearly all of them related words appear: thus,, , ; , , , , ; , , ; (ÇB.), , , , ,. Those in, especially, look like the beginnings of a new conjugation-class.

b. Having still more that aspect, however, are a Vedic group of stems in, which in general have allied themselves to present-systems of the -class (732), and are found alongside the forms of that class: thus, beside. Of such, RV. has. A few others have no -class companions: thus, (AV.); and  (√ rain),  (√ clothe), and perhaps  (√ attain).

c. Here may be mentioned also quasi-denominatives made from onomatopoetic combinations of sounds, generally with repetition: e. g..

1067. The denominative stems in RV. and AV. with causative accentuation are: RV. (also ), (also ),  (also ); AV. adds.

a. The accent of and  (RV.) is wholly anomalous.

1068. Inflection. The denominative stems are inflected with regularity like the other stems ending in अ (733 a) throughout the present-system. Forms outside of