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noun
The strongest ablaut-grade in a series of vowel alternations in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Sanskrit, as well as in Proto-Indo-European.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: lengthened grade
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वृद्धि (vṛddhi, “growth, increase”).
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
