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 m., both meaning demon, and between  n. abandonment (?) and  m. descendant (?), the antithesis is much less clear.

f. Adjectives in without corresponding abstracts are:  bestowing,  offering,  pious, probably  heady; and a few other words of isolated occurence, as,. From a denominative stem is made wild animal (RV., once).

g. But there are also a very few cases of abstract nouns, not neuter, accented on the ending: thus, old age,  fear; and doubtless also  call, and  impulse. The feminine dawn, and  night, might belong either here or under the last preceding head.

h. Apparently containing a suffix are the noun  lap, and certain proper names:, , , ,. The feminine nymph is of doubtful derivation.

i. The irregular formation of some of the words of this division will be noticed, without special remark.

3. j. The infinitives made by the suffix have been explained above (973): they show various treatment of the root, and various accent (which last may perhaps mark a difference of gender, like that between  and ).

4. k. The formation of derivatives in from roots compounded with prefixes is very restricted — if, indeed, it is to be admitted at all. No infinitive in occurs with a prefix; nor any action-noun; and the adjective combinations are in some instances evidently, and in most others apparently, possessive compounds of the noun with the prefix used adjectively: the most probable exceptions are - and. As in these examples, the accent is always on the prefix.

l. Certain Vedic stems in may be noticed here, as more or less exchanging with stems in, and apparently related with such. They were reported above, at 169 a.

In connection with this, the most common and important suffix ending in, may be best treated the others, kindred in office and possibly also in origin, which end in the same sibilant.

1152. तस्, नस् , सस्. With these suffixes are made an extremely small number of action-nouns. Thus:

a. With are made  seed, and  stream.

b. With are made  acquisition,  wave, - offering,  riches; and in  wealth, and  fulness is apparently to be seen the same suffix, with prefixed elements having the present value of union-vowels. Probably the same is true of house-friend, and  (RV.) n. pr.,  (or -) n. pr.

c. With is perhaps made  beauty; and  may be mentioned with it (rather -?).