Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Modification of the sound of a word or morpheme when juxtaposed with another, especially in fluent speech, as the modification of the pronunciation of don't in don't you from its pronunciation in isolation or in a phrase like don't we.
Wiktionary
- n. linguistics A cover term for 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)
Etymologies
- From Sanskrit संधि (saṃdhi, "joining"). (Wiktionary)
- Sanskrit saṃdhiḥ, union, sandhi : sam, together; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + dadhāti, dhī-, he places; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To get Mandarin speech recognition to work, we had to learn a lot about this fascinating language — the differences between traditional and simplified Chinese, its tonal characteristics, automatic segmentation of text into words, pinyin representations of Chinese characters, sandhi rules, the different accents and languages in China, unicode representations of Chinese character sets...the list goes on and on.”
Google Search by voice travels the world, finds Nokia, learns Chinese
“As for χan, since it follows the word iχ a word found in Etruscan to mean 'thus', then the aspiration can be explained as a phonetic spelling hinting at sandhi.”
“The iti after vadi is really eti, the absence of sandhi in the proper form is Arsha.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
“Loka is in the locative case, the final vowel indicating to the locative having been dropped for sandhi.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
“Actually the current version automatically converts one type of tone sandhi: if you have a case like "bu4 yao4" (不要), the result will be "bu2 yao4".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sandhi’.
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250 More Spelling Words
More words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
melisma, dioecious, jejunity, sialogogue, zingiber, zendik, dithyramb, pneuma, kachina, agiotage, baedeker, sabulous and 238 more...
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Sand
A nitty-gritty list for words containing sand-, -sand-, or -sand; and apropos terms and phrases. Your contributions are welcome.
sand-blast, sand-jet, greensand, sandpaper, sandlot, sandstorm, sandbar, sandbag, sandwich, sandwort, Cassandra, sandhog and 218 more...
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Terms of Phonetics
Phonetic concepts that are fascinating or novel.
An open-ended list, so this can also include abstract or linguistic terms.tessaraphthong, samprasarana, great vowel shift, phonotactics, t-glottalization, hushing, bilabial, lexicostatistics, hachek, surd, ɲɟǃǃʎ, isogloss and 32 more...
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Metawords
Talking about talking, writing about writing, etc.
epizeuxis, tautological, aptote, bibliophagist, parataxis, scriptorium, aposiopesis, variorum, chantefable, boustrophedon, psellism, adoxography and 51 more...
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worddom
put words in their place
theca, wisdom, kingdom, freedom, boredom, seldom, martyrdom, abdomen, doom, samhita, duma, dumka and 151 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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Qualfors
ghazal, seanchai, panini, sutra, padma, slesa, sandhi, bihotz, poiotes, illy, vindobona, parapraise and 14 more...
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peculiarities of our own languages
Mostly words to describe using formal/informal "you" forms, at the moment: I'm not adding them all as I'd like a little variation. Searching that out.
We all know a word or two which ...vouvoyer, tutoyer, cecear, yeismo, sinuttelu, teitittely, faire schmolitz, tutoiement, vouvoiement, dua, nia, duzen and 20 more...
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didascalica
from Ivan Illich's In the Vineyard of the Text - a commentary on the transition from a oral tradition to a text tradition of reading in the 12th century, and varied other discourses of Illich on a...
incipit, paideia, auctoritas, Varro, ecloga, studium, schriftlichkeitsg..., remedium, eigenlicht, sendelicht, zeigelicht, beleuchtungslicht and 59 more...
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linguistics = sexy
inchoative, semblitive, transitivity, deixis, indexical, adjunct, predicate, approximant, ejective, epenthesis, monophthong, pharyngealisation and 41 more...
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jen's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sandhi.
madmouth hell of a lot better than 'assimilation' Jun 16, 2009