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sandhis

sandhis is the plural of sandhi.

Meaning of sandhi

Noun

sandhi (countable and uncountable, plural sandhis)

  1. Any of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words.
    • Mixed sandhi has two divisions, viz. when a word ending in a vowel is followed by a word beginning with a consonant, and when a word ending in a consonant is followed by a word beginning with a vowel. Cases of mixed sandhi are very few, and in the second division are limited to the changes of...1879, R. C. Childers, “On Sandhi in Pali”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, New Series, Volume 11, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 101

Questions about sandhis

What is sandhis the plural of?
Sandhis is the plural of sandhi.

Words near sandhis in the dictionary

  1. sandhill plum
  2. sandhill plums
  3. sandhiller
  4. sandhillers
  5. sandhills
  6. sandhis
  7. Sandhoe
  8. Sandhoff disease
  9. sandhog
  10. sandhogged
  11. sandhogger

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