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 a. How far it had gained a primary value in the early language is not easy to determine. Most of the words in occurring in RV. and AV. are explainable as possessives; in many the other value is possible, and in a few it is distinctly suggested: thus, ; from a tense-stem, (late); with aoristic ; and, with reduplication,,. As the examples indicate, composition, both with prefixes and with other elements, is frequent; and, in all cases alike, the accent is on the suffix.

b. Later, the primary employment is unquestionable, and examples of it, chiefly in composition, are frequent. The radical syllable is usually strengthened, a medial being sometimes lengthened and sometimes remaining unchanged. Thus, truth-speaking,  addressing,  soul-winning. In has established itself a prevailingly future meaning, about to be.

c. The use of an accusative object with words in was noticed above (271 b).

1184. ईयस् and इष्ठ. These suffixes, which, from forming intensive adjectives corresponding to the adjective of root-form, have come to be used, within somewhat narrow limits, as suffixes of adjective comparison, have been already sufficiently treated above, under the head of comparison (466–470).

a. It may be further noticed that has in the older language (only two or three times in RV.) the accent also on the final,, and that its correlative also is  in the oldest language;  is made from a secondary form of root, with aoristic  added.

b. When the comparative suffix has the abbreviated form (470 a), its  is never to be read in the Veda as.

c. No other suffixes make derivatives having participial value otherwise than in rare and sporadic cases; those that remain, therefore, will be taken up mainly in the order of their frequency and importance.

1185. त्र. With this suffix are formed a few adjectives, and a considerable number of nouns, mostly neuter, and often having a specialized meaning, as signifying the means or instrument of the action expressed by the root. The latter has usually the -strengthening, but sometimes remains unchanged. The accent is various, but more often on the radical syllable.

a. Here, as in certain other cases above, we have doubtless a suffix