sandhi
French, noun/sɑ̃.di/
sandhi is a French masculine noun meaning “sandhi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Changement phonologique à la frontière des mots ou des morphèmes”.
What does sandhi mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesandhi
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Changement phonologique à la frontière des mots ou des morphèmes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sandhi
- sandhis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sandhi?
- /sɑ̃.di/
- \sɑ̃.di\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sandhi
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sandhi in French?
sandhi appears about once in every 76 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).