vrddhi

• vriddhi
• vṛddhi

From Sanskrit वृद्धि (vṛddhi, “growth, increase”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɹɪ.di/

vrddhi (countable and uncountable, plural vrddhis)

1. (linguistics, linguistic morphology) The strongest ablaut-grade in a series of vowel alternations in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Sanskrit, as well as in Proto-Indo-European.
   • 2004, Benjamin Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, Blackwell 2004, p. 117:

     Sometimes a vrddhi-derivative was formed from a zero-grade and involved the insertion of the full-grade vowel in the “wrong” place.

2. (Sanskrit grammar) A group of long vowels.

• vrddhied