| >Compounds are words that are composed (sometimes in realtime) of two or more independent words. The procedure (i.e., rules) for joining or combining multiple words into one larger word is collectively called sandhi in Sanskrit, IIRC. There is also another related word and procedure that I forget right now. I am not a linguist or a philologist or whatever the right term is, but one other way of generating new words is to add a prefix in front. Like adding the prefix "a" (which implies negation) in front of a word, such as adding it front of "satya" (truth) to get "asatya" (falsehood / not truth). There are other such prefixes in Sanskrit, such as "sa", "vi" and "pra", which are used, for example, in the words "savikalpa samadhi", "vijnana", and "prasiddha" or "pralaya", to name just a few. Sanskrit is a very interesting language, to say the least ... |