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.