Compound: non-last part of a compound
Compounds are traditionally segmented to individual syntactic words in
Sanskrit, although they are written as one orthographical word. Only the last
part of a nominal compound bears the case ending. The previous parts have
a case-neutral form (which is often identical to singular vocative).
These forms are tagged with Compound=Yes.
Yes: it is a case-less form in a compound
Examples
- एवञ्च ततो धर्मार्थकामशास्त्राणि ज्ञायन्ते। / evañca tato dharmārthakāmaśāstrāṇi jñāyante. “And this way Dharma, Artha and Kamashastra are known.” (The compound has three parts. धर्म / dharma and अर्थ / artha are caseless and tagged
Compound=Yes. The last part, कामशास्त्राणि / kāmaśāstrāṇi bears the suffix expressing neuter plural accusative. It is tagged with gender, number and case, but not withCompound=Yes.)
Compound in other languages: [la] [ro] [sa] [yrl]