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- Sanskrit · learned borrowing fromवृद्धि“growth, increase”
- English todayvṛddhi
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वृद्धि (vṛddhi, “growth, increase”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
vṛddhi
Today it means: The strongest ablaut-grade in a series of vowel alternations in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Sanskrit, as well as in Proto-Indo-European. Full definition →
Sanskrit वृद्धि