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 a. Thus: tear,  dear,  sucking,  timid; — with preceding -vowel:  inimical,  flying,  praising,  scoffing,  harming; — with preceding,  relaxed,  rejoicing,  obtaining,  chilly, the evidently secondary  ally, and  (of doubtful meaning).

b. The secondary suffix (see 1227 b) is apparently added to certain nouns in  from conjugation-stems, making derivatives that have a primary aspect: thus,  flying,  desiring.

1193. वि. By this suffix are made:

a. Two or three derivatives from reduplicated roots: awake,  sustaining,  shining; and a very few other words;  lively,  firm,  worn out (AV.; elsewhere ); - is doubtful.

b. Here may be mentioned (RV., once), apparently made with a suffix  from a reduplicated root-form.

1194. स्नु. With this suffix, with or without a union-vowel, are made a few adjective derivatives from roots, but also from causative stems.

a. From simple roots: direct, perishable, - sick,  victorious,  biting,  thriving, - sitting down,  fixed; with union-vowel,.

b. From secondary conjugation-stems: ; and. An anomalous formation is.

c. These derivatives are freely compounded with prefixes: e. g..

d. It is not unlikely that the of this suffix is originally that of a stem, to which  was added. Such a character is still apparent in craving raw flesh ; and also in,  (?), and  (?).

1195. स्न. Extremely few words have this ending.

a. It is seen in sharp, and perhaps in ; and in  and  (usually trisyllabic: ) gift. Unless in the last, it is not found preceded by ; but it has (like, above) before it in  deadly weapon,  fore-arm;  skilled seems to be secondary. Feminines are loam,  moonlight.