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‖ vṛddhi|ˈvrɪdhɪ|
Also vriddhi.
[Skr., lit. ‘increase’.]
In Sanskrit grammar, the strongest grade of an ablaut-series of vowels; also, the process of phonetic change whereby vowels of the middle grade are strengthened to achieve this grade. Cf. guna.
1841[see guna n.]. 1916A. A. Macdonell Vedic Gram. for Students 5 Beside the Guṇa syllables appear, but much less frequently, the syllables ai, au, ār (āl does not occur), which are called Vṛddhi by the same authorities [sc. the Indian grammarians] and may be regarded as a lengthened variety of the Guṇa syllables. 1965G. Y. Shevelov Prehist. of Slavic 116 More important features which led to the rise of length in I[ndo-]E[uropean] were the special kind of morphological analogy called vṛddhi (the name used by O[ld] I[ndian] grammarians to denote reflexes of long diphthongs in OI) and the loss of laryngeals. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 150 It is time to break away from Herzfeld's notion that fortresses are ‘pflanzenbewachsener boden’ or ‘saatland’, and that the vriddhi of initial u was ā. |