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 1216. एय. With this suffix, accompanied by -increment of an initial syllable, are made adjectives, often having a patronymic or metronymic value. Their neuter is sometimes used as abstract noun. The accent rests usually on the final in adjectives of descent, and on the first syllable in others.

a. Examples are: descendant of a sage,  son of Jānaçruti,  of Sarámā's race,  Çatavani's descendant,  son of Rathajít;  of the blood ,  of the bladder ,  coming from man ,  of a paternal aunt , etc.

b. A more than usual proportion of derivatives in come from primitives in  or ; and probably the suffix first gained its form by addition of  to a gunated, though afterward used independently.

c. The gerundive etc. derivatives in (above, 1213) from -roots end in ; and, besides such, RV. etc. have from, and  worth seeing, apparently from the desiderative noun , after their analogy. M. has once as gerund of √.

d. Derivatives in the so-called suffix — as  — are doubtless made upon proximate derivatives in  (fem.).

e. In (i. e. ) end, besides the neuter abstract  (above, 1213 c), the adjective of gerundival meaning  (with aoristic  added to the root), and  curse-bringing (or accursed), from.

1217. एन्य. This suffix is doubtless secondary in origin, made by the addition of य to derivatives in a -suffix; but, like others of similar origin, it is applied in some measure independently, chiefly in the older language, where it has nearly the value of the later  (above, 1215 b), as making gerundival adjectives.

a. The of this suffix is almost always to be read as vowel, and the accent is (except in ) on the : thus -.

b. The gerundives have been all given above, under the different conjugations to which they attach themselves (966 b, 1019 b, 1038). The RV. has also two non-gerundival adjectives, manly, and  famous , and TS. has ;  (RV.) is a word of doubtful connections;  instructive is found in a Sūtra;  of the rainy season occurs later.