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* Austria-Hungary | * Austria-Hungary | ||
* freeze-dry | * freeze-dry | ||
* Bosnia-Herzegovina | |||
* mother-child'' | |||
* and possibly, ''player-coach''. | |||
=== Synonyms === | === Synonyms === | ||
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=== Origin === | === Origin === | ||
''Dvāndva'' arose by reduplication of the word ''dva'' ‘two’. | ''Dvāndva'' arose by reduplication of the word ''dva'' ‘two’. | ||
=== Link === | |||
[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Dvanda+compound&lemmacode=1103 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | |||
=== References === | === References === | ||
Revision as of 17:05, 24 July 2014
Dvāndva [ˈdvɑːndvə] is a compound where each element could be head.
Examples
- Austria-Hungary
- freeze-dry
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- mother-child
- and possibly, player-coach.
Synonyms
Origin
Dvāndva arose by reduplication of the word dva ‘two’.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Trask, Robert Lawrence. 1992. A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. London: Routledge.