First Known Use: 1806
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sandhi
noun san·dhi \ˈsan-dē, ˈsän-, ˈsən-\
Definition of SANDHI
: modification of the sound of a morpheme (as a word or affix) conditioned by syntactic context in which it is uttered (as pronunciation of -ed as \d\ in glazed and as \t\ in paced or occurrence of a in a cow and of an in an old cow)
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Origin of SANDHI
Sanskrit saṁdhi, literally, placing together
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