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Ashtadhyayi

Ashtadhyayi proper noun: a grammatical treatise codifying what came to be known as Sanskrit, one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.

Proper noun

Ashtadhyayi

  1. A grammatical treatise codifying what came to be known as Sanskrit, one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.

Origin of Ashtadhyayi

Borrowed from Sanskrit अष्टाध्यायी (aṣṭādhyāyī, literally “eight-chaptered”).

Questions about Ashtadhyayi

What does Ashtadhyayi mean?
Ashtadhyayi means a grammatical treatise codifying what came to be known as Sanskrit, one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.
What part of speech is Ashtadhyayi?
Ashtadhyayi is a proper noun.

Words near Ashtadhyayi in the dictionary

  1. Asht
  2. Ashtabula
  3. Ashtabula County
  4. Ashtabulan
  5. Ashtabulans
  6. Ashtadhyayi
  7. Ashtadiggaja
  8. Ashtadiggajas
  9. ashtamangala
  10. Ashtami
  11. ashtanga

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