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200 NOMINAL STEM FOEMATION [182(Gk. opO-o-s:), pak-va ripe, i£>nY-va, prccedinf/, sar-va all (Lat.sal-ru-s); as-va m, Jiorse (Lat. eq-tm-s), sru-va m. ladle; am-ivaf. disease.van: adj. and subst. (mostly m., few n.) ; e.g. rk-vanj^raising, krt-van active, yaj-van sacrificing adh-van m.;road, gra-van m. stone ; par-van n. joint.sa :adj. and subst. (all genders) ; e. g. grt-sa adroit.prk-sa dappled (s/prc); mah-i-sa mightii ; rj-i-sa rushing;ar-u-sa red; lit-sa m. fountain, drap-sa m. dro}!, puru-sam. man ; piir-i-sa u. rul/ldsh ;man-i-sa f. devotion.snu :adj. (from root or cans, stem) ; e. g. ji-snii victorious ;vadh-a-snil murderous ; car-i-snii wandering ; maday-i-snumtoxicating.2. Secondary nominal Suffixes.The great majority of these form adjectives with thegeneral sense of relating to or connected with.a : forms a large number of adjectives expressing thesense of relation to or connexion with the primitive word ;many of them have in the m. become apjjellatives and inthe n. abstract nouns. The first syllable in the greatmajority of instances is strengthened with Vrddhi (the f.then always takes e.i) ; g.marut-a relating to the Maruts(mariit) ;daiva divine (deva god); parthiva eartldij (prthiv-iearth) manav-a; hclonging to man (man-u), m. human being ;tanv-a helonging to the body (tanu) ; dasarajn-a n. battle ofthe ten Icings (dasa-rajan) ; maghon-a n. bounti fulness (maghavanbountiful) ;without Vrddhi :bhesaj-a adj. healing, n.medicine; sakhy-a n. friendsliip [saikhi friend); hotv-an. officeofpriest (hotr).a : forms the f. of adjectives which in m. and n. end in a :e. g.nava f.,nava m. n. neiv ; priy-a f.. pi'iy-a m. n. dear ;gata f.,gata m. n. gone.ani : forms the f. of names of male beings in a, or f.personifications ;e. g.indr-ani wife of Indra, mudgal-ani