osthya

English

Alternative forms
  • oṣṭhya

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ओष्ठ्य (oṣṭhya, “labial”).

Noun

osthya

  1. (Indian linguistics) a labial consonant
    • 1976, Natural Language Studies, number 21, page 162:
      In the RPr. ... it is true that v is included in a class characterized only as oṣṭhya, but this refers only to sthāna.
    • 1991, Pāṇini, Shivram Dattatray Joshi, J. A. F. Roodbergen, The Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini with Translation and Explanatory Notes, Volume 10, page 223:
      The KV then points out that the rule not only applies in connection with osthya sounds, but also in connection with the dantoṣṭhya 'labio-dental' sound v.
    • 1997, Madhav Deshpande, Śaunakīyā Caturādhyāyikā, page 137:
      and hence in spite of its labio-dentality, it came to be listed as an oṣṭhya sound.
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