Term taken from Old Indic grammar ( Sanskrit) for the merging of two words or word forms and the resulting systematic phonological changes. Internal sandhi involves two morphemes within a word; external sandhi takes place between two consecutive words....

// n. Any of various phenomena in which the form of a word or morpheme is modified by the presence of an adjoining word or morpheme: would+you []; Latin reg- ‘king’ (stem)+ -s (Nominative)rex (i.e., reks). Sanskrit...

n. Any instance of sandhi taking place within a single word, such as the change of the [s] in face to [∫] in its derivative facial. Cf. external...

n. Any form of sandhi occurring across word boundaries, such as the process t+j → t∫ in English sequences like can’t you Cf. internal sandhi. Hockett...

Sandhi (Sanskrit saṃdhi संधि "joining") is a cover term for a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries (thus belonging to what is called morphophonology). Examples include the fusion of sounds across...