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sandhi

sandhi

English

Noun

sandhi (countable and uncountable, plural sandhis)

  1. (linguistics) A cover term for 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.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ̃di/

Noun

sandhi m (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) sandhi

Polish

Etymology

From Sanskrit संधि (saṃdhi, joining).

Noun

sandhi n

  1. sandhi