nitya

Meaning "obligatory"

nityapakṣa

The position that words are eternal and not created by a speaker.

nityasamāsa

Technical term. A compound which is obligatory and whose meaning cannot be expressed by its constituent members used separately (i.e. syntactic phrase).

nityaśabdavāda

They deny the relation between the constituent meanings and the compound as a whole.

nāda

Resonance.

nāman

A Sanskrit word/form

nāsikya

Nasal. Also: anunāsika ‘having a nasal component’, and anusvāra (ṃ).

pac

'cook'; verbal root

pada

Technical term, "a word or an inflected word".

padapāṭha

Words separated and pronounced in pausa.

padatva

A Sanskrit word/form

padādhyāhāra

noun, 'supplying of words'

paśya-

paśya-, present stem of dṛś 'see'.

phala

noun, 'fruit, result'; an element of verbal meaning.

piba-

piba-, present stem of pā 'drink'.

pradhāna

Adj., 'predominant'

pradhāna-kriyā

pradhāna-kriyā, 'primary action, predominant action'; grammatical term referring to the action expressed by a finite verb.

pradhānakriyā

'primary/main action'

pradhānatva

Technical term, "possessing predominance".

pratyaya

A Sanskrit word/form

prayatna

Effort or manner of articulation.

prayujyante

A Sanskrit word/form

prayujyate

A Sanskrit word/form

praśasya

praśasya, 'good, praiseworthy'; adjective.

prādi

A Sanskrit word/form

prātipadika

A Sanskrit word/form

prāpya

adj (gerundive), 'to be obtained'; a type of karman.

prātiśākhya

Also called pārṣadas and present phonological descriptions from the four Vedas.

prāṇa

Aspirate. Also: mahāprāṇa ‘with greater prāṇa’ and alpaprāṇa ‘with less prāṇa’.

pā

pā, 'drink'; verbal root.

pādapūraṇa

Technical term, "filling out the verse” which refers to one of the meanings of the particle ca 'and'.

pūrva-kāla

Lit. 'temporal precedence'.

sad

sad, 'sit'; verbal root.

samānakartṛkatva

A Sanskrit word/form

samāsa

A Sanskrit word/form

sambhūya

A Sanskrit word/form

sampradāna

Technical term

samuccaya

Technical term, "accumulation" which is one of the four senses of the indeclinable ca 'and'.

samāhāra

Technical term meaning "aggregation".

samāna-kartṛ

Lit. 'same agent'

samānādhikaraṇa

samānādhikaraṇa, 'coreference'. Grammatical term.

sandhyakṣara

Compound vowels ( e/ai and o/au).

saṃhitāpāṭha

Running text.

saṃnidhi

noun, 'juxtaposition'

smṛ

'remember'; verbal root.

sparśa

Contact sounds: stops and nasals.

spṛṣṭa

Contact. Also the variants: īṣat-spṛṣṭa. (slight contact) and īṣad-vivṛta (slight openness). Contrary to: vivṛta or apṛṣta.

sthā

sthā, 'stand'; verbal root.

sthāna

Place of articulation. These are: kaṇṭha ‘throat’, tālu ‘hard-palate’, mūrdhan ‘top of palate’, danta ‘teeth’, dantamūla ‘alveolar ridge’, oṣṭha ‘lips’, nāsikā ‘nose’, uras ‘chest’.

sthānin

Technical term, 'that which should be in the place or is to be supplied'