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Dvandva

Dvandva logo #21000 A dvandva (Sanskrit द्वन्द्व dvandva `pair`) or twin or Siamese linguistic compound refers to one or more objects that could be connected in sense by the conjunction `and`, where the objects refer to the parts of an agglomeration described by the compound. Dvandvas are common in some languages such as Sanskrit where the term or...
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dvandva

dvandva logo #21199a compound word neither element of which is subordinate to the other, as bittersweet, Anglo-Saxon.
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