Associations to the word «Bahuvrihi»

Wiktionary

BAHUVRIHI, noun. (linguistics) A type of nominal compound in which the first part modifies the second and neither part alone conveys the intended meaning.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin