English Dictionary

dvandva

名詞

(linguistics, lexicography) A copulative or coordinative type of compound in which members, if not compounded, would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction and. Common in languages such as Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese, but less so in English.

日本語の意味

対等な要素が連結された合成語。つまり、個々の単語が本来同じ格で用いられ、接続詞「and」などで連結される形態の複合語を指す。

In his lecture on morphology, he used dvandva to illustrate how two nouns can form a single coordinative unit without a conjunction.

形態論の講義で、彼は並列複合語を用いて、二つの名詞が接続詞なしで一つの単位を形成することを説明した。

意味（1）

(linguistics, lexicography) A copulative or coordinative type of compound in which members, if not compounded, would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction and. Common in languages such as Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese, but less so in English.

Tatpuruṣa and dvandva compounds regularly have a single gender, that of the final constituent, although a subgroup of dvandvas has the gender of the first constituent.

dvandvas （ plural ）