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 suffix (above, 1148 l, m). A few examples are: striding on,  upgoing,  receptacle,  expiration,  release and releasing,  assembly and assembler,  cutting off,  falling away down. For other compounds of these derivatives, showing the same accent (and the same feminine stem), see the next chapter (below, 1271). A few exceptions occur:, , and the feminines and.

f. The adjectives of this formation, simple or compound, make their feminine usually in : thus,, , , ; , , , , ( is of doubtful meaning: below, i). An adjective compound, however, having a noun in as final member, makes its feminine in : thus,  of easy approach,  of sextuple order,  not to be ordered away.

2. The more irregular formations may be classed as follows:

g. With accent on the final: a number of agent-nouns and adjectives, as active (against  act),  miserable (against  misery),  hasting,  shining,  yelling,  sleepy,  habitable.

h. These, unlike the preceding class, make their feminine in : e. g.,. A few feminine action-nouns in the older language have the same form: thus,, , , , , , (and compare , ); those of the later language in  (rather numerous) are doubtful as regards accent.

i. Beside these may be mentioned a few feminines in, of more or less doubtful character: , (to ),  (to ), ,  (with ), ,.

j. With accent on the penult: a small number of adjectives: as hasting,  milking,  considerate,  and  rejoicing,  overcoming, and perhaps  carrying (the last two with aoristic ); and a still smaller number of neuter action-nouns:  great deed,  enclosure, town,  service,  misery (against  miserable), with the masculine  dust.

k. The only noticed example of a feminine is in :. And a few feminine nouns have the same form:, , , , , , , ,. (And compare the anomalous masc. name : 355 a.)

l. Without strengthening of the root are made a small number of derivatives: thus (besides those already noted, and,  and , , ), further accented examples are , , , , , , -; and later are found , , , -, , , etc. RV. makes denominatives from -, -, -, -.