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dvandva Philol.|ˈdvandvə|
Also dwandwa.
[Skr. dvaṇdvá, the repeated nom. of dva pair, couple.]
In full dvandva compound. A compound word in which the elements are related to each other as if joined by a copula.
1846Monier Williams Elem. Gram. Sanscr. ix. 158 Native grammarians class compound nouns under..dwandwa, or those formed by the aggregation into one compound of two or more nouns..which, if uncompounded, they would all be in the same case, connected by a copulative conjunction [etc.]. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. & Languages iii. 119 A dvandva compound is one in which the relationship between the two constituents may be rendered by the conjunction and; for example, prince-consort. 1946Trans. Philol. Soc. 1945 86 The compound śiloñcha- then came to be misunderstood as a dvandva. 1962A. Campbell in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Stud. 18 The lays seem to have preserved the dvandva compound, a type otherwise unknown in Germanic. |