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English
Etymology
From indeclinable + -ly.
Adverb
indeclinably (not comparable)
- (grammar) Without declination (variation of termination in a word).
1889, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar:c. In the older language, the numerals for 5 and upward are sometimes used in the nom.-acc. form (or as if indeclinably) with other cases also: thus, páñca kṛṣṭíṣu among the five races; saptá rṣīṇām of seven bards; sahásram ṛ́ṣibhiḥ with a thousand bards; çatám pūrbhíḥ with a hundred strongholds. Sporadic instances of a like kind are also met with later.
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