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  • noun linguistics The strongest ablaut-grade in a series of vowels alternations in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Sanskrit, as well as in Proto-Indo-European.
  • noun In Sanskrit grammar terminology, a technical term for a group of long vowels.

Etymologies

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From Sanskrit वृद्धि (vṛddhi, "growth, increase").

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