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- Sanskrit · borrowed fromअनुबन्ध
- English todayanubandha
From Sanskrit अनुबन्ध (anubandha), from अनु- (anu-, “after”) + बन्ध (bandha, “binding”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Characters added before or after a Sanskrit stem (or other morpheme), used as marker to convey a grammatical operation such as accentuation or substitution, and dropped once the word is fully formed. Full definition →
From Sanskrit अनुबन्ध (anubandha), from अनु- (anu-, “after”) + बन्ध (bandha, “binding”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.