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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Compound of अष्ट (aṣṭa) + अध्याय (adhyāya) + -ई (-ī).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
अष्टाध्यायी • (aṣṭādhyāyī) f
- (linguistics) Literary meaning "eight chapters"; the earliest known grammar of Sanskrit, and one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.