SANDHI

sandhi

(noun) the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sandhi (countable and uncountable, plural sandhis)

(phonology) 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.

Hyponyms

• crasis

• liaison

• mutation

• hiatus

Anagrams

• Danish, danish, handis

Source: Wiktionary



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