sandhi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit संधि (saṃdhí, “joining”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌndi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑndi/, /ˈsændi/, /ˈsʌndi/

Noun

Examples
liaison in French syntactic gemination in Italian

sandhi (countable and uncountable, plural sandhis)

1. (phonology) 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.

Hyponyms

• crasis
• liaison
• mutation
• hiatus

Derived terms

• external sandhi
• internal sandhi
• tone sandhi

Translations

phonological process

• Arabic: سَنْدْهِي m (sandhī), وَصْل m (waṣl)
• Assamese: সন্ধি (xondhi)
• Bengali: সন্ধি (śondhi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連音／连音 (zh) (liányīn), 连音 (zh) (liányīn)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sandhi-ilmiö, sandhi
• French: sandhi (fr) m
• German: Sandhi (de) n
• Gujarati: સંધિ (sandhi)
• Hindi: संधि (hi) (sandhi)
• Indonesian: sandi (id)
• Japanese: 連音 (れんおん, ren'on)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kannada: ಸಂಧಿ (kn) (sandhi), ಕೂಡಿಕೆ (kn) (kūḍike)
• Korean: 연음 (yeoneum)
• Malayalam: സന്ധി (ml) (sandhi)
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: sandhi n
• Portuguese: sândi m
• Punjabi: ਸੰਧੀ (pa) (sandhī)
• Russian: са́ндхи (ru) n (sándxi)
• Sanskrit: संधि (sa) (saṃdhí)
• Spanish: sandhi m
• Tamil: புணர்ச்சி (ta) (puṇarcci)
• Thai: สนธิ (th) (sǒn-tí)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• sandhi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Danish, danish, handis

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.di/

Noun

sandhi m (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) sandhi

Further reading

• “sandhi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀲𑀦𑁆𑀥𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• सन्धि (Devanagari script)
• সন্ধি (Bengali script)
• සන්‍ධි (Sinhalese script)
• သန္ဓိ or သၼ္ꩪိ or သၼ်ꩪိ (Burmese script)
• สนฺธิ or สันธิ (Thai script)
• ᩈᨶ᩠ᨵᩥ (Tai Tham script)
• ສນ຺ຘິ or ສັນຘິ (Lao script)
• សន្ធិ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄚𑄴𑄙𑄨 (Chakma script)

Noun

sandhi f

1. union
2. junction
3. joint
4. connection
5. agreement
6. sandhi

Declension

Declension table of "sandhi" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	sandhi	sandhiyo or sandhī
Accusative (second)	sandhiṃ	sandhiyo or sandhī
Instrumental (third)	sandhiyā	sandhīhi or sandhībhi
Dative (fourth)	sandhiyā	sandhīnaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	sandhiyā	sandhīhi or sandhībhi
Genitive (sixth)	sandhiyā	sandhīnaṃ
Locative (seventh)	sandhiyā or sandhiyaṃ	sandhīsu
Vocative (calling)	sandhi	sandhiyo or sandhī

Derived terms

• sandhiṃ chindati
• sandhiccheda

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “sandhi”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

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Polish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit संधि (saṃdhi, “joining”).

Noun

sandhi n

1. sandhi