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| Reduplication (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Kalleh In another thread we were talking about "reduplication," and I see that we've discussed it quite a ... Shu told me it was a "reduplication." In the other thread, it seemed more like an "ideophone" to me. When I look "reduplication" up in Dictionary.com, it says, quote:3. Grammar.a. reduplicating as a... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Siamese sounds in names (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdThere's an atl-atl, but it is neither a place nor an animal. The process is called reduplication in linguistics, and in some language it has meaning, like being the plural for some nouns.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Repetitive duplicates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arniequote:pooh-pooh (that isn't one, is it? It's just repeating the same word)The Wikipedia article calls that exact reduplication (baby-talk-like).... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Limerick Game: Walla Walla (in Wordplay) by BobHaleCongratulations StellaI see that proof and I both had the idea of spliting the name in half and then using further reduplication at the ends and starts of lines.Great minds thinking alike again.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay
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Reduplication (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofyAn example of reduplication as a grammatical pattern is verb formation in ancient Greek. Sometimes the initial consonant is reduplicated.luō "I loosed"leluka "I have loosened"graphō "I write"gegraphō ... - this is lexical reduplication.raja "king"raja-raja "kings"In English, reduplication is found in... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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bartleby's word of the day ... (in Wordplay) by MorganI just had to look up the definition for today's word of the day on Bartleby! It definitely caught my eye.argy-bargyNOUN: pl. argy-bargiesChiefly British Slang A lively or disputatious discussion. ETYMOLOGY: Scots, reduplication of argie, argument, from argue Cute word!... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay
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"Goodbye" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnieIt is obviously formed from "good-bye", and "bye" on its own can also be heard, sometimes spelled with an apostrophe to indicate that "good" has been left out: 'bye. Its reduplication is possibly indicative of being used by young children in the first instance, although adults certainly use the... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Repetitive duplicates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehI know there are already a lot of links here about reduplication, but I thought some of these examples were funny/interesting. Here are a few:flim-flampooh-pooh (that isn't one, is it? It's just repeating the same word)riff-raffchit-chat (I hear that around my office a lot - hate it!)bow wowdilly... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Volcano Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcraftersurface. [see also here][Hawaiian, reduplication of hoe, 'to paddle', probably from the swirls on its... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Repetitive duplicates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinmanFrom Reduplication Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (selected quotes)quote:Reduplication in ... whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.Reduplication is used in inflections to convey a ... new words.ExamplesEnglishEnglish has several types of reduplication, ranging from informal... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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A Hodge-Podge of Reduplicatives (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter.1870 by a Christy Minstrel song.- perhaps a reduplication of hunkey "all right, satisfactory... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Niminy-piminy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnieAHD suggests that it is an alteration of namby-pamby. The reduplication has the effect of intensifying, so someone who is niminy-piminy is an ultra namby-pamby, in my opinion.Namby-pamby has an ... a process of repetition is called reduplication. After being popularized by Pope, namby-pamby went... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputsecond a reduplication, an inceptive (?) stem suffix -sk-, and the infinitive ending -ein. The... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Savory Collectives - E pluribus unum (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcraftermixture[reduplication of Yiddish mishn to mix, or of English mash 1. mixed ground grain fed to... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum flyting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by jheem-bargy from argle-bargle which is a reduplication of argle from argue. Partridge in his sublime... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Repetitive duplicates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinmankinnikinnick is also a reduplication and, in some spellings, a palindrome: kinninnik and kinuk-kinuk. Kinnikinnick is a mixture of dried leaves, sometimes bark, and later tobacco smoked by Algonquian Indians and pioneers in the Ohio Valley (M-W). The name was also applied to one of the plants... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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