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• It would therefore not be surprising if unambiguous bahuvrihi morphology were to be used occasionally in a governing compound.
• At the same time, none of the extended adjectival bahuvrihis has its linear counterpart in either poem.
• Thus, bahuvrihi compounds have some kind of an identifying function. Marchand provides the following explanation for the origins of bahuvrihi compounds: they were used very early in Indo-European languages, primarily for namegiving, but most of them functioned only as adjectives.