reduplicative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A word obtained by the process of reduplication.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "A hyphen (-) is generally used to indicate the boundary between the components of ordinary and reduplicative compounds in derivational morphology."
- "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)."
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.
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Phrases
reduplicative paramnesia