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dvandva | Word of the Day
August 25, 2019
dvandva
[
dvahn
-dvah,
dvuhn
-dv
uh
]
noun
1.
a compound word neither element of which is subordinate to the other, as
bittersweet
.
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WORD OF THE DAY
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QUOTES
These days, it's hard to tell leftists and liberals apart without an agenda. Hence the increasing popularity of ''liberal-leftist,'' which merges categories on the model of compounds like ''toaster-oven'' and ''owner-occupier.'' (Linguists call those ''
dvandvas
,'' a term invented by the Sanskrit grammarians.)
-- Geoffrey Nunberg, "Sticks and Stones; The Defanging of a Radical Epithet,"
New York Times,
August 17, 2003
ORIGIN
Dvandva
, literally meaning "a pair," is a Sanskrit technical term used exclusively in grammar and linguistics. (By the end of the second millennium b.c., Hindu Brahmans had invented and developed the science of descriptive linguistics, including phonology, phonetics, metrics, grammar, and etymology, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation and oral transmission of the Vedas).
Dvandva
is a reduplication of
dva
"two," closely related to Latin
duo
, Greek
dýo
(also
dýō
and
dýwe
), Slavic (Czech)
dva
, Germanic (Gothic)
twa
, and Old Irish
da
, all derived from Proto-Indo-European
duwo
.
Dvandva
entered English in the 19th century.
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