rsalm wrote:

>Dear Alan,
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> Thank you for your post, which I have found informative as usual. I looked over your "Compound Reference Sheet" and wish you to congratulate you on your energy and work.
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Thank you, but I wouldn't have been able to compile this sheet without
many very helpful people in this group.

> There is a point on which I require some clarity. You write, “Bahubbiihi compounds are adjectival compounds whose posterior words are always nouns.” I wonder if this statement isn’t a little too categorical. In another place you similarly write that a Bh is a compound “which would function adjectivally but end with a noun.” Let’s consider ‘Buddhabhaasito.’ Alone it is a Tp (instr.) compound, “spoken by the Buddha.” The posterior part is a past participle (pp), ‘bhaasito.’ Perniola (110) writes that the pp “is an adjective and is formed with the suffix –ta/-na added to the root in its weak grade.” So here we apparently have a noun + adj.: ‘Buddhabhaasito.’ Can we not turn this into a Bh compound as follows: ‘Buddhabhaasitaa dhammaa’? = The dhammaa which have been spoken by the Buddha, or (as a complete statement), “The dhammaa have been spoken by the Buddha,” i.e., “The Buddha has spoken the dhammaa.”
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Yes, past participles are adjectives. I just noticed that Rett and Dr.
Pind have both responded to you explaining why Bahubbiihi compounds must
end with nouns, so I won't go any further as I'm sure that their
comments are clearer than anything that I could write. However, I am
very happy to continue discussing compounds as they are fascinating to
me, and I have much to learn still, so I will pay close attention to
this conversation as it continues.

Metta,

Alan