vy in comp. before vowels for 3. vi/ .
Vy° is the semi-vowel (i.e. half-consonantal) form of vi° before following a and ā (vya°, vyā), very rarely ū and o. The prefix vi° is very unstable, and a variety of forms are also attached to vy°, which, after the manner of all consonant-combinations in Pāḷi, may apart from its regular form vy° appear either as contracted to vv° (written v°), like vagga (for vyagga), vaya (for vyaya), vosita (= vyosita), °vvūha (= vyūha, appearing as °bhūha), or diæretic as viy° (in poetry) or veyy° (popular), e.g. viyañjana, viyārambha, viyāyata; or veyvañjanika, veyyākaraṇa, veyyāyika. It further appears as by° (like byaggha, byañjana, byappatha, byamha, byāpanna, byābādha etc.). In a few cases vya° represents (a diæretic) vi°, as in vyamhita and vyasanna; and vyā° = vi° in vyārosa.
(prefix, prefix) prefix vi in comps