bahuvrihi

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/bahuːˈvɹiːhi/

Definition of bahuvrihi

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(also, attributive)A type of nominal compound in which the first part modifies the second but neither part alone conveys the intended meaning.

“Considerable discrepancies prevail with regard to the word मूचिीः which the Calcutta edition and all the authorities except the Bombay copy and No. VI. read without the visarga. It has subsequently been inserted in Mr. [Charles] Wilkins' ms., and is clearly required by the sense, as तोजोमूचिीः is a bahuvrihi or compound epithet.”
“It would therefore not be surprising if unambiguous bahuvrihi morphology were to be used occasionally in a governing compound.”
“At the same time, none of the extended adjectival bahuvrihis has its linear counterpart in either poem. This is characteristic of the general situation in Old English. Neither the correspondence between the linear and the reversed bahuvrihis nor the relation between the linear and the extended bahuvrihis is symmetrical, […]”

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noun

(also, attributive)A type of nominal compound in which the first part modifies the second but neither part alone conveys the intended meaning.

“Considerable discrepancies prevail with regard to the word मूचिीः which the Calcutta edition and all the authorities except the Bombay copy and No. VI. read without the visarga. It has subsequently been inserted in Mr. [Charles] Wilkins' ms., and is clearly required by the sense, as तोजोमूचिीः is a bahuvrihi or compound epithet.”
“It would therefore not be surprising if unambiguous bahuvrihi morphology were to be used occasionally in a governing compound.”
“At the same time, none of the extended adjectival bahuvrihis has its linear counterpart in either poem. This is characteristic of the general situation in Old English. Neither the correspondence between the linear and the reversed bahuvrihis nor the relation between the linear and the extended bahuvrihis is symmetrical, […]”
(alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of bahuvrihi.

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Transliteration of Sanskrit बहुव्रीहि (bahuvrīhi, “rich, wealthy”, literally “(possessing) much rice”), itself an example of a bahuvrihi.

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