Associations to the word «Dvandva»

Wiktionary

DVANDVA, noun. (linguistics) A copulative or coordinative type of a 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.

Wise words

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain