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 agreeable and disagreeable, where each component is used substantively, are, of course, not to be separated from the ordinary noun-compounds.

c. A special case is that of the compound adjectives of direction: as north-east,  south-east,  south-west, etc.: compare 1291 b.

1258. In accentuated texts, the copulative compounds have uniformly the accent (acute) on the final of the stem.

a. Exceptions are a case or two in AV., where doubtless the reading is false: thus, (once: beside -),  (once: ÇB. -),  (also VS.); further,  (ÇB.),  (ÇB.).

1259. An example or two are met with of adverbial copulatives: thus, day by day,  at evening and in the morning. They have the accent of their prior member. Later occur also.

1260. Repeated words. In all ages of the language, nouns and pronouns and adjectives and particles are not infrequently repeated, to give an intensive, or a distributive, or a repetitional meaning.

a. Though these are not properly copulative compounds, there is no better connection in which to notice them than here. They are, as the older language shows, a sort of compound, of which the prior member has its own independent accent, and the other is without accent: hence they are most suitably and properly written (as in the Vedic -texts) as compounds. Thus: slay of them each best man;  or  from day to day;  from every limb, from every hair, in each joint;  make the master of the sacrifice live on and on;  further and further, tomorrow and again tomorrow;  with in each case one;  our very selves.

b. Exceptional and rare cases are those of a personal verb-form repeated: thus, (RV.),  (ÇB.),  (? ÇB.); — and of two words repeated: thus,  (ÇB.),  (ÇB.).

c. In a few instances, a word is found used twice in succession without that loss of accent the second time which makes the repetition a virtual composite: thus, (RV.),  (AV.),  (AV.),  (ÇB.),  (RV., acc. to -text).

d. The class of combinations here described is called by the native grammarians added unto (?).

1261. Finally may be noticed in passing the compound numerals, 11,  22,  103,  1004, and so on (476 ff.), as a special and primitive class of copulatives. They are accented on the prior member.