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171-172] DESIDERATIVES 201a. Outside the present system only two desiderative verbal forms ^have been met with, two is aorists in the AV. : fi-cikits-is andirts-is.' Three participial forms have also been noted : the perf.to bepass. part, mimams-i-td' and the gerundives didrks-enya tvorthyseen and i5usrus-6nya worthy to he heard* Finally, over a dozen verbaladjectives formed witli u from the desiderative stem occur in the RV.,e. g. iyaks-ii wishing to sacrifice. They have the value of a pres. part.governing a case.III.Intensives (Frequentatives).172. Tliese verbs are meant to convey intensification orfrequent repetition of the action expressed by the simpleroot. They are common, being formed from over ninetyroots in the Samhitas, and about twenty-five others in theBrahmanas. The formation is restricted to roots withinitial consonants, nor is it ever applied to derivative verbs.The stem, of which a peculiar form of strong reduplicationis characteristic, has two forms. The primary type, whichisby far the commonest, adds the personal endings immediatelyto the reduplicated stem (accented on the first syllablein strong forms App. III. 12 : e). It is inflected, in bothactive and middle, likea verb of the third or reduplicatedclass (132) ; e. g. nij tvash : 3. sing. n6-nek-ti. The secondaryform, which is rare, adds accented yd in the same way asthe passive (154) to the reduplicated stem. It is conjugatedin the middle only, like the passive ; e. g. vij tremble :ve-vij-ya-te fremUes violenth/.1In B. periphrastic perfect forms from five or six desiderativestems have been noted.'In B. is aorists from half a dozen desiderative stems occur ; e. g.aips-it, aips-is-raa, a-jighams-is, a-mimams-is-thas. One or twosimple and periphrastic futures also occur in B., as titiks-isyate (tijhe sharp), didrks-i-taras (drs see).3In B. also jijyiis-i-tfi ( jiv live), dhiks-i-t4 (dah burn), susrus-i-t4(srii hear).*In B. also lips-i-tavya (labh take), didhyas-i-tavya (dhya think),jijnas-ya (jiia knou:).