Adjectives
417. a. A few neuter nouns in as with accent on the radical syllable have corresponding adjectives or appellatives in ás, with accent on the ending: thus, for example, ápas work, apás active; táras quickness, tarás quick; yáças glory, yaçás glorious. A few other similar adjectives — as tavás mighty, vedhás pious — are without corresponding nouns.
b. Original adjectives in is do not occur (as to alleged desiderative adjectives in is, see 392 d). But in us are found as many adjectives as nouns (about ten of each class); and in several instances adjective and noun stand side by side, without difference of accent such as appears in the stems in as: e.g. tápus heat and hot; vápus wonder and wonderful.
418. Adjective compounds having nouns of this division as final member are very common: thus, sumánas favorably minded; dīrghā́yus long-lived; çukráçocis having brilliant brightness. The stem-form is the same for all genders, and each gender is inflected in the usual manner, the stems in as making their nom. sing. masc. and fem. in ās (like án̄giras, above). Thus, from sumánas, the nom. and accus. are as follows:
| Singular. | Dual. | Plural. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m. | f. | n. | m. | f. | n. | m. | f. | n. | |
| N. | sumánās | -nas | sumánasāu | -nasī | sumánasas | -nāṅsi | |||
| A. | sumánasam | -nas | |||||||
and the other cases (save the vocative) are alike in all genders.
a. In Veda and Brāhmaṇa, the neut. nom. sing. is in a considerable number of instances made in ās, like the other genders.
b. From dīrghā́yus, in like manner:
| N. | dīrghā́yus | dīrghā́yuṣāu | -yuṣī | dīrghā́yuṣas | -yūṅṣi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | dīrghā́yuṣam | -yus | ||||
| I. | dīrghā́yuṣā | dīrghā́yurbhyām | dīrghā́yurbhis | |||
| etc. | etc. | etc. | ||||
419. The stem anehás unrivalled (defined as meaning time in the later language) forms the nom. sing. masc. and fem, anehā́.
C. Derivative stems in an.
420. The stems of this division are those made by the three suffixes अन् an, मन् man, and वन् van, together with a few of more questionable etymology which are inflected like them. They are almost exclusively masculine and neuter.
421. The stem has a triple form. In the strong cases
