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54 DECLENSION [79Similarly declined are :— tvac slcin^ ;sic hem ;rue lustre,sue flame, srue ladle ;re stanza, mrc injur); ;ni-mriicsunset and other compounds. Krunc forms its N. s. krun,du. kruucau.2. There is only one stem in eh, formed from the rootprch asJc : N. du. m. bandhu-preh-a ashing after kinsmen ;also the D. and A. infinitive foi'ms prch-e to asl; sam-preh-eto greet ; vi-preh-am and sam-prch-am to ask.3. a.Uncompounded radical stems in j are mostly f.substantives ;but aj driver, vij stake at play are m., andyiii,'^ raj, bhraj are m. as well as f. Neut. forms occur incompound adjectives, but never the distinctively n. endingsof the N.A.V. du. and pi.''When the j is derived from a guttural, it becomes aguttural in the N. s. and before consonant endings ;whenderived from an old palatal, it becomes a cerebral in theN. s.^ and before consonants, but k before the su ofthe L. pi.Thus in the N. urk (urj) vigour ;nir-nik (nir-nij) brightgarment ;but bhrat m. shining (bhraj), rat m, king,f.mistress ;L. pi. srak-su garlands (sraj), pra-yak-su offerings(pra-yaj).a. Tlie N. of ava-yaj f. share of the sacrificial oblation and of avayaj m.priest who offers the oblation is anomalous in dropping the j and addingthe s of the nom. :ava-yas, avayas (cp. 28 a .h. There are seven m. and f.adj.or subst. formed withthe suffixes -aj and -ij:a-svapn-aj sleepless, trsn-aj thirstij,^From vyac extend occurs the strong form uru-vyancam/ar extendiwj,and from sac accompany only the strong forms A. -sac-am, and N. pi.-sae-as.2This word meaning companion also has a nasalized form inN.A. s. du. :yiin (for yunk), yuiaj-am, yiinj-a.2But in a Brahmana -bhaj sharing forms the N. pi. n. form -bhanji.*Except in rtv-ik from rtu-ij m. sacrificing in due season, priest (fromyaj sacrifice).