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 a. A principal exception with regard to accent is master, lord (and its feminine ), compounds with which usually retain the accent of the prior member: thus,, etc. etc. (compare the verbal nouns in , below, 1274). But in a few words retains its own accent: thus,, etc.; and the more general rule is followed in  and  (AV.), and  (VS.),  (MS.; elsewhere ).

b. Other exceptions are sporadic only: for example, and  (but );.

c. The appearance of a case-form in such compounds is rare: examples are (the three last in possessive application).

d. A number of compounds are accented on both members: thus, (also ),  ( as independent word),. And ÇB. has a long list of metronymics having the anomalous accentuation, etc.

1268. The compounds having an ordinary adjective as final member are (as already noticed) comparatively few.

a. So far as can be gathered from the scanty examples occurring in the older language, they retain the accent of the prior member: thus, (AV. ),  (but ); but  ripening in cultivated soil.

1269. The adjective dependent compounds having as final member the bare root — or, if it end in a short vowel, generally with an added — are very numerous in all periods of the language, as has been already repeatedly noticed (thus, 383 f–h, 1147). They are accented on the root.

a. In a very few instances, the accent of words having apparently or conjecturally this origin is otherwise laid: thus,.

b. Before a final root-stem appears not very seldom a case-form: for example,.

C. The root-stem has sometimes a middle or passive value: for example, yoked (yoking themselves) by the will,  pierced to the heart,  born of Manu.

1270. Compounds made with verbal derivatives in, both of action and of agency, are numerous, and take the accent usually on their final syllable (as in the case of compounds with verbal prefixes: 1148 m).