Standard Lemma guide

sandhi

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsændi/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsʌndi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈsʌndi/
  • General-American: /ˈsɑndi/
  • India, Nepal, South-Asia: /s̪ɐn̪.d̪ɦí/
  • India, Nepal, South-Asia: /s̪ɐ̃n̪.d̪ɦí/
  • India, Nepal, South-Asia: /sɐn.dɦí/
  • India, Nepal, South-Asia: /sɐ̃n.dɦí/
  • rhymes with -ændi
  • rhymes with -ʌndi
  • homophone: Sunday
  • homophone: sundae

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: articulation

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सं॒धि (saṃdhí, literally “junction; union”). Partial piecewise doublet of synthesis and synth.

Across languages

Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سَنْدْهِي (sandhī) — phonological process
  • Arabic: وَصْل (waṣl) — phonological process
  • Assamese: সন্ধি (xondhi) — phonological process
  • Bengali: সন্ধি (śondhi) — phonological process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 連音 /连音 (liányīn) — phonological process
  • Dutch: sandhi — phonological process
  • Finnish: sandhi-ilmiö — phonological process
  • Finnish: sandhi — phonological process
  • Finnish: rajailmiö — phonological process
  • French: sandhi — phonological process
  • German: Sandhi — phonological process
  • Gujarati: સંધિ (sandhi) — phonological process
  • Hindi: सन्धि (sandhi) — phonological process
  • Hungarian: szandhi — phonological process
  • Indonesian: sandi — phonological process
  • Italian: sandhi — phonological process
  • Italian: legamento — phonological process
  • Japanese: 連音 (ren'on) — phonological process
  • Kannada: ಸಂಧಿ (sandhi) — phonological process
  • Kannada: ಕೂಡಿಕೆ (kūḍike) — phonological process
  • Korean: 연음 (yeoneum) — phonological process
  • Malayalam: സന്ധി (sandhi) — phonological process
  • Odia: ସନ୍ଧି (sandhi) — phonological process
  • Polish: sandhi — phonological process
  • Portuguese: sândi — phonological process
  • Punjabi: ਸੰਧੀ (sandhī) — phonological process
  • Russian: са́ндхи (sándxi) — phonological process
  • Sanskrit: सन्धि (saṃdhí) — phonological process
  • Spanish: sandhi — phonological process
  • Swedish: sandhi — phonological process
  • Tamil: புணர்ச்சி (puṇarcci) — phonological process
  • Tamil: சந்தி (canti) — phonological process
  • Telugu: సంధి (sandhi) — phonological process
  • Thai: สนธิ (sǒn-tí) — phonological process
  • Tocharian B: meske — phonological process
  • Urdu: سندھی (sandhī) — phonological process