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spoken', vojjha 'to be carried', gejjha 'to be grasped', khajja 'to be eaten', gujjha 'to be concealed', cajja 'to be abandoned', dejja 'worth giving', dojjha 'to be milked', nejja 'to be carried', bojjha 'to be understood', pujja 'to be honoured', bhejja 'to be broken', vajja 'to be avoided', vajjha 'to be killed ', vinnappa 'to be requested', lejjha 'to be licked' mejja 'to be measured', vejja 'to be known.' 278 These participles are used as :
(i) Adjectives : Alepoane TEI Things to be known. पेजं जलं। Water to be drunk. वंदणिजा पुरिसा। Men to be honoured.
(ii) In place of the verb : ag aften i He should be spoken by you. सव्वेहिं धम्मकहा नायव्वा| All should know the religious story.
(iii) Impersonally: a guillo iced I You should go to the park. Qurant and you I He is to tell it in due order.
Cf. 451-452.
279 NOMINAL DERIVATIVES. Possessive adjectives are formed from nouns and adjectives by adding (a) 315 : सदाल from सद्द, noisy, महालय, from महा, great, (b) इल्लः तणइल्ल from aui, full of grass, ose from a thorny, Hice from माया, deceitful, बाहिरिल्ल from बाहिर, outsider, पढमिल्ल from पढम first, उत्तरिल्ल from उत्तर, of the nothern direction. . (c) अल्लः महल्ल from महा, great.
Other illustrations are : niyadilla, sāsilla, ganthilla, kalankilla, satthillaya, gotthillaya, gāmellaya, andhillaga, ādilla, uvarilla, dāhinilla ; puratthimilla, majjhilla, hetthilla, puvilla, āņilliya, ekallaya, andhalla, pisalla. All these suffixes appear to be of popular origin. Pischel suggests that they were accented to explain the doubling of 1.
280 Possessive adjectives and nouns are formed by adding to the nouns मन्त and वन्तः आयारमन्त
