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 fem. ), ; and.

The suffixes apparently most nearly akin with may best be next taken up.

1214. इय. This suffix is virtually identical with the preceding, being but another written form of the same thing. It is used only after two consonants, where the direct addition of य would create a combination of difficult utterance. It has the same variety of accent with. Thus:

a. With accent (=  or ): for example,  (also ) from the clouds,  having authority ,  reverend ,  libational ,  inimical.

b. With accent (=  or ): for example,  (also ) foremost,  Indra's (later, sense: ),  of the field.

c. With accent on the primitive: learned,  (also ) in season.

1215. ईय. This suffix also is apparently by origin a  of which the first element has maintained its long quantity by the interposition of a euphonic. It is accented always on the.

a. In RV. occur, of general adjectives, only and, and examples in the later Vedic are very few: e. g.  mountainous (AV., beside RV. ). In the Brāhmaṇas are found a number of adjectives, some of them from phrases (first words of verses and the like): thus, , etc.

b. It was pointed out above (965) that derivative adjectives in from action-nouns in  begin in later Veda and in Brāhmaṇa to be used gerundivally, and are a recognized formation as gerundives in the classical language. But adjectives in without gerundive character are also common.

c. Derivatives in with initial  are sometimes made in the later language: e. g..

d. The pronominal possessives etc. (516 a) do not occur either in Veda or in Brāhmaṇa; but the ordinals  etc. (487 b, c: with fractionals  and : 488 a) are found from the earliest period.

e. The possessives and, with the final of the primitive made sonant, have probably had their form determined by the pronominal possessives in -.