in sanskrit bahuvrihis, the last constituent is a noun—more strictly, a nominal stem—while the whole compound is an adjective. in vedic sanskrit the accent is regularly on the first member ( ' "a king's son", but bahuvrihi ' "having kings as sons", viz. ', m., "father of kings", ', f., "mother of kings"), with the exception of a number of non-nominal prefixes such as the privative a; the word "" is itself likewise an exception to this rule.