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reduplicative en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English reduplicate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English reduplicative From reduplicate + -ive.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Formed by redoubling; reduplicate, double
   • The loss of the reduplicative syllable in the perfect is sufficiently accounted for by the same occurrence in almost all the modern, and even some of the ancient branches of the Indo-Germanic family. 1848, Chevalier Bunsen, Charles Meyer, Max Müller, Three Linguistic Dissertations:
   • A hyphen (-) is generally used to indicate the boundary between the components of ordinary and reduplicative compounds in derivational morphology. 2004, Jean Robert Opgenort, A Grammar of Wambule:

Deriveds

reduplicativity · nonreduplicative · endoreduplicative · reduplicatively · reduplicative paramnesia

reduplicative en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English reduplicate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English reduplicative From reduplicate + -ive.

Meanings

1. A word obtained by the process of reduplication.
   • Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech; in contrast, in English reduplicatives are much less frequent and often involve phoneme modulation (ding-dong; wham-bam). 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:

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