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 evident, but opinions are at variance as to its nature. The accent is as in the derivatives with.

a. The quotable examples in are:  uninjuredness,  freedom from disease,  the being seized,  supremacy,  divinity,  wealth,  good-fortune,  completeness; and, with exceptional accent,  home, and  cleverness;  and  occur (once each) in the later language. Two words in are used adjectively (inorganically, by apposition?):  (RV., twice; and AV. xix. 44. 1, in manuscripts), and  (RV., once: voc.).

b. The words in (apparently made by abbreviation from ) occur in only one or two ; they were all mentioned above (383 k. 2).

1239. त्व. With this suffix are made neuter nouns, of the same value as the feminines in ता (above, 1237).

a. The neuter abstracts in are in the older language considerably more common than the feminines in, although themselves also not very numerous. The accent is without exception on the suffix.

b. Examples (from the older language) are: immortality,  divinity,  good-fortune,  struggle for precedency,  purity,  husbandship,  energy,  long life,  enmity,  brotherhood,  virility,  soulfulness,  liberality,  sorcery. In and - there is a lengthening of the final syllable of the primitive; and in  (AV., once) this appears to be accompanied by initial  ( is doubtless from, not ); and in these and  there is an apparent insertion of. In (RV.),  (TS.),  (TB.), there is shortening of final feminine  before the suffix. Of peculiar formation are actuality and  union. The apparent feminine datives and  (KS.) are doubtless false forms.

c. Besides the usual guttural reversions in, we have external combination in (--) and  (--).

d. In (RV., once) incitedness, and  (RV., twice) human quality, appears to be a combination of the two equivalent suffixes  and.

e. The of  is to be read in Veda as  only once.

1240. त्वन. The derivatives made with this suffix are, like those in, neuter abstracts. They occur almost only in RV., and, except in a single instance, have beside them equivalent derivatives in. The accent is on the final, and the is never resolved into.