reduplication

noun
/ɹɪ.djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/UK/ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/US

Etymology

From re- + duplication.

  1. derived from duplicō
  2. derived from duplicatio
  3. derived from duplication
  4. inherited from duplicacioun
  5. prefixed as reduplication — “re + duplication

Definitions

  1. 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[.]
  2. 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