English Explanatory Dictionary

Ashtadhyayi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A grammatical treatise codifying what came to be known as Sanskrit, one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.

Word forms

Ashtadhyayi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अष्टाध्यायी (aṣṭādhyāyī, literally “eight-chaptered”).

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