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dvan⋅dva

  [dvahn-dvah, dvuhn-dvuh]
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–noun Grammar.
a compound word neither element of which is subordinate to the other, as bittersweet, Anglo-Saxon.
Origin:
1840–50; < Skt, nasalized redupl. of dva two
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