reduplication
noun/ɹɪ.djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/UK/ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/US
Etymology
From re- + duplication.
- derived from duplicō
- derived from duplicatio
- derived from duplication
- inherited from duplicacioun
Definitions
The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
- Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
- Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]
The folding or doubling of a part or organ.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for reduplication. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA