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1. babu, n. View full entry 1763
...A title of respect typically appended (sometimes prefixed) to the surname of a Hindu man....
2. bahuvrihi, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1846
...Of a word: composed of an adjective and a substantive so as to form, principally, a possessive adjective, like the word bahuvrihi itself; also gen., forming a compound...
3. Dravidian, adj. and n. View full entry 1856
...Of or pertaining to a non-Aryan people found in southern India and Sri Lanka, or their languages....
4. dvandva, n. View full entry 1846
...In full dvandva compound. A compound word in which the elements are related to each other as if joined by a copula....
5. guna, n. View full entry 1804
...In Sanskrit Grammar, the middle grade of an ablaut-series of vowels; by the native Indian grammarians viewed as produced from the weak grade by the prefixing of the vowel ...
6. karmadharaya, n. View full entry 1846
...A compound in which the first member describes the second, as highway (adjective + noun), steamboat (attrib. noun + noun)....
7. samprasarana, n. View full entry 1861
...In Sanskrit, the interchange between the vowels i, u, ṛi, lṛi and their corresponding semi-vowels y, v, r, l; hence, a similar process in other Indo-European languages....
8. sandhi, n. View full entry 1806
...The term applied orig. by Sanskrit grammarians to assimilative changes occurring in Sanskrit in the final and initial sounds of words in a sentence (external sandhi), and in the final...
9. Sanskrit | Sanscrit, n. and adj. View full entry 1617
...The ancient and sacred language of India, the oldest known member of the Indo-European family, in which the extensive Hindu literature from the Vedas downward is composed. In a narrower sense, the...
10. set, adj.2 View full entry 1897
...In Sanskrit, designating a root after which the vowel i appears before certain suffixes and endings (such roots being now widely explained as reflecting a type earlier having a laryngeal...
11. svarabhakti, n. View full entry 1880
...The process by which a parasitic vowel is inserted between two consonants. Usu. attrib., esp. as svarabhakti vowel....
12. svarita, n. View full entry 1916
...A falling glide used in the recitation of Vedic texts (see quots.). Also in extended use....
13. tatpurusha, n. View full entry 1846
...A compound in which the first element qualifies or determines the second, while the second retains its grammatical independence as noun, adjective, or participle....
14. udātta, n. View full entry 1857
...The tone of the accented or main syllable of a word in Vedic Sanskrit. Also in extended use. Cf. svarita...
15. vṛddhi, n. View full entry 1841
...In Sanskrit grammar, the strongest grade of an ablaut-series of vowels; also, the process of phonetic change whereby vowels of the middle grade are strengthened to achieve this grade. Cf. guna...
