SANDHI


Meaning of SANDHI in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈsan-dē, ˈsän-, ˈsən- ]

noun

Etymology: Sanskrit saṁdhi, 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 )

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