different between karmadharaya vs dvandva

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ???????? (karmadh?raya).

Noun

karmadharaya (plural karmadharayas)

1. (Sanskrit grammar, lexicography) A form of tatpuru?a in which the relation of the first member to the last is appositional, attributive, or adverbial, e.g. uluka-yatu (owl + demon) for a demon in the shape of an owl. Most typically this involves an adjective which modifies a following substantive.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??????? (dva?dvá).

Noun

dvandva (plural dvandvas)

1. (linguistics, lexicography) A copulative or coordinative type of 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.
   • 2003, Dhanesh Jain, George Cardona, The Indo-Aryan Languages, Routledge, p. 153:

     Tatpuru?a and dvandva compounds regularly have a single gender, that of the final constituent, although a subgroup of dvandvas has the gender of the first constituent.

See also

• Category:English dvandva compounds
• bahuvrihi
• tatpuru?a
• karmadharaya
• amredita
• dvigu