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 ); with, and  windy (late: ); and  maternal uncle is a somewhat irregular formation from  mother.

b. In the later language are found a few adjectives in, always preceded by ; examples are: and  compassionate,  jealous,  heated,  and  sleepy,  modest,  drooling,  trusting,  passionate. One or two such derivatives having a primary aspect were noticed at 1192 b.

1228. व. A small number of adjectives have this ending (accented, added to an unaltered primitive).

a. Examples are: billowy,  hairy;  girded;  slippery,  tranquillizing,  credible,  jewelless,  striped.

b. There are a very few adjectives in and  which may be noticed here: thus,  peasant ( ploughing),  wooly, ;  wooden dish,  fourfold.

c. With are made two or three words from names of relationship: thus,  paternal uncle,  nephew, enemy.

1229. श. A very few adjectives appear to be made by an added ending of this form.

a. Thus, or  hairy,  (also ) variegated,  or  hasting,  or  and  brownish,  blackish,  youthful,  childish,  harsh,  (?) n. pr.; and  (?),  are doubtless of the same character (not containing the root ). The character of is doubtful.

b. Many of the adjective derivatives already treated have sometimes a possessive value, the general meaning of being concerned with, having relation to being specialized into that of being in possession of. But there are also a few distinctively possessive suffixes; and some of these, on account of the unlimited freedom of using them and the frequency of their occurrence, are very conspicuous parts of the general system of derivation. These will be next considered.

1230. इन्. Possessive adjectives of this ending may be formed almost unlimitedly from stems in अ or आ, and are sometimes (but very rarely) made from stems with other finals.

a. A final vowel disappears before the suffix. The accent is on the suffix. As to the inflection of these adjectives, see above, 438 ff. They are to be counted by hundreds in the older language, and are equally or more numerous in the later.