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 made with these suffixes may best be noticed here, in connection with वन् (of which the others are probably secondary extensions).

a. With are made  talkative,  warrior (beside, above); and, from a reduplicated root,  shining.

b. With are made from simple roots  excelling, and  restless, and, from reduplicated roots,  shining,  daring,  striving after, and  praising;  is obscure.

c. With is made only  tone, noise.

1171. वर. With this suffix are made a few derivatives, of all genders, having for the most part the value of agent-nouns and adjectives. Much more common are the feminine stems in वरी, which, from the earliest period, serve as corresponding feminines to the masculine stems in वन्.

a. A few masculine adjectives in occur, formally accordant (except in accent) with the feminines: thus,  going, - eating; and so, further, in the older language,, -, , , ,  (?), -, , and doubtless with them belongs ; later, -, ,  (also ), -, , , , -; from a reduplicated root,  (B. and later). Many of these have feminines in.

b. The feminines in accord in treatment of the root and in accent with the masculines in  to which they correspond: thus,, -, , -, -, and so on (about twenty-five such formations in RV.); from a reduplicated root, -.

c. A very small number of neuters occur, with accent on the root: thus, deed,  (later also ) thicket; and a feminine or two, with accent on the penult:  field, and  tow (both of doubtful etymology).

We take up now the suffixes by which are made only stems having the value of agent-nouns and adjectives; beginning with a brief mention of the participial endings, which in general have been already sufficiently treated.

1172. अन्त् (or अत् ). The office of this suffix, in making present and future participles active, has been fully explained above, in connection with the various tense-stems and conjugation-stems (chaps. VIII.–XIV.), in combination