LINGUINDIC

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tatpuruṣa

A class of compounds (formed like the word tat-puruṣa-,"his servant") in which the last member is qualified by the first without losing its grammatical independence.

References

Bauer, L (2006), Compound.

Miscellaneous

Linguistic Notions

Compounding

A compound can be defined in very basic terms as a word that is made up of two or more words. Compounds thus show properties of both morphological formation (the whole constitutes a word) and sy...