n.
Pronunciation: ' san-d ē , ' sän-, ' s ə n-
Function: noun
Etymology: Sanskrit sa ṁ dhi, literally, placing together
Date: 1806
: modification of the sound of a morpheme (as a word or affix) conditioned by syntactic context in which it is uttered (as pronunciation of -ed as \ d \ in glazed and as \ t \ in paced or occurrence of a in a cow and of an in an old cow )