From: rett
Message: 8894
Date: 2005-09-09
>If -ja as the final member of a compound is an adjective meaning -born, -produced, -arisen, then the compound can't be a bahubbiihi. You are right that the compound is an adjective qualifying the 'feeling', but it is able to do that unproblematically because the final -ja is itself an adjective. Bahubbiihis have a _noun_ as their final member, but manage to function as adjectives despite that.
>
>So, is "cakkhusamphassajaa" indeed a bahubbiihi compound? I was tempted to
>say tappurisa, as in: "There is feeling which is arisen from eye contact,"
>but then I assume that this means that the feeling is literally being set
>equal to the phrase "arisen from eye contact," and I think that this
>comopund is actually just helping to qualify the "feeling" as an adjective.
>
>Is this right?