Etymology

Ashtadhyayi

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Today it means: A grammatical treatise codifying what came to be known as Sanskrit, one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether. Full definition →

Sanskrit अष्टाध्यायी
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The story

  1. Sanskrit · borrowed fromअष्टाध्यायी
  2. English todayAshtadhyayi

Borrowed from Sanskrit अष्टाध्यायी (aṣṭādhyāyī, literally “eight-chaptered”).

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