LINGUINDIC

< All sanskrit words

nityasamāsa

Technical term. A compound which is obligatory and whose meaning cannot be expressed by its constituent members used separately (i.e. syntactic phrase).

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...