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sandhi en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /s̪ɐ̃n̪.d̪ʱí/ (India, Nepal, South-Asia)
  • /s̪ɐn̪.d̪ʱí/ (India, Nepal, South-Asia)
  • /ˈsændi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈsɑndi/ (General-American)
  • /sɐ̃n.dʱí/ (India, Nepal, South-Asia)
  • /sɐn.dʱí/ (India, Nepal, South-Asia)
  • /ˈsʌndi/ (General-American)
  • /ˈsʌndi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सं॒धि (saṃdhí, literally “junction; union”). Partial piecewise doublet of synthesis and synth.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
    • The rules on sandhi in Pâli may be divided into rules on vowel-sandhi, and rules on mixed sandhi where a vowel and a consonant are concerned. Consonantal sandhi does not occur in Pâli. 1884, Edward Müller, A Simplified Grammar of the Pali Language, Trübner & Co., page 59:
    • 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 anusvâra before a vowel. 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sandhis Number=Plur lexicographic
saṃdhi alternative lexicographic
sundhi alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Deriveds

internal sandhi · external sandhi · tone sandhi

Hyponyms

liaison · crasis · mutation · hiatus

Translations (37)

kn ಸಂಧಿ (phonological process) · de Sandhi (phonological process) · ko 연음 (phonological process) · pt sândi (phonological process) · or ସନ୍ଧି (phonological process) · sa सन्धि (phonological process) · ar وَصْل (phonological process) · te సంధి (phonological process) · it legamento (phonological process) · gu સંધિ (phonological process) · id sandi (phonological process) · ar سَنْدْهِي (phonological process) · cmn 連音 /连音 (phonological process) · fr sandhi (phonological process) · kn ಕೂಡಿಕೆ (phonological process) · ml സന്ധി (phonological process) · it sandhi (phonological process) · fi rajailmiö (phonological process) · ja 連音 (phonological process) · es sandhi (phonological process) · pl sandhi (phonological process) · bn সন্ধি (phonological process) · sv sandhi (phonological process) · da sandhi (phonological process) · th สนธิ (phonological process) · hi सन्धि (phonological process) · nl sandhi (phonological process) · fi sandhi-ilmiö (phonological process) · pa ਸੰਧੀ (phonological process) · ur سندھی (phonological process) · as সন্ধি (phonological process) · txb meske (phonological process) · fi sandhi (phonological process) · hu szandhi (phonological process) · ta சந்தி (phonological process) · ru са́ндхи (phonological process) · ta புணர்ச்சி (phonological process)