The story
- Sanskrit · learned borrowing fromसं॒धि
- English todaysandhi
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सं॒धि (saṃdhí, literally “junction; union”). Partial piecewise doublet of synthesis and synth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sandhi
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Sanskrit सं॒धि