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 Compounding and incorporation is the main, characteristically Themsaran method of derivation.
-Noun-adjective compounding occurs by removing the ending of the noun (and inserting ''-o-'' for first declension, ''-e-'' for second declennsion, and ''-i-'' for third declension of the noun if phonotactically required). If the compound is a noun with a supplemental meaning by the adjective, the lexical tone is that of the noun; on the contrary, as an adjective with the meaning colored by the noun, the lexical tone is adopted from the adjective. (e.g. ''cólèn'' (1st decl., high tone) + ''simáttem'' (accent paradigm ''c'') ''= cólnosimáttem'' 'wind' + 'northern' = 'north wind'; ''sōrachráth'' 'royalty, royal household' < ''sôr'' 'house' + ''achráth'' 'royal'; post-classical neologisms include ''ðálfaromīdáth'' ''tradition'' < ''ðál-'' 'passing, transmission' + ''fáromīdáth'' 'legitimate'; ''thilqārdé'' 'broadsword, claymore' < ''thilqé'' 'sword' + ''ârd'' 'big, great').
+Noun-adjective compounding occurs by removing the ending of the noun (and inserting ''-o-'' for first declension, ''-e-'' for second declennsion, and ''-i-'' for third declension of the noun if phonotactically required). If the compound is a noun with a supplemental meaning by the adjective, the lexical tone is that of the noun; on the contrary, as an adjective with the meaning colored by the noun, the lexical tone is adopted from the adjective. (e.g. ''cólèn'' (1st decl., high tone) + ''simáttym'' (accent paradigm ''c'') ''= cólnosimáttym'' 'wind' + 'northern' = 'north wind'; ''sōrachráth'' 'royalty, royal household' < ''sôr'' 'house' + ''achráth'' 'royal'; post-classical neologisms include ''ðálfaromīdáth'' ''tradition'' < ''ðál-'' 'passing, transmission' + ''fáromīdáth'' 'legitimate'; ''thilqārdé'' 'broadsword, claymore' < ''thilqé'' 'sword' + ''ârd'' 'big, great').
 Compounds headed by the final noun are largely 'kind of noun' compounds (noun-noun/adj-noun) and are much less productive than the right-branching ones often of a noun-adjective form.