Great Unsolved Mysteries of Lingustic Terminology #416
Great Unsolved Mysteries of Lingustic Terminology #416
Why is it called "reduplication", which implies three or four of something, and not just "duplication", which implies two, when the vast majority of instances of it involve something being (more or less) doubled? We must be told!
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WeepingElf
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Re: Great Unsolved Mysteries of Lingustic Terminology #416
Because language isn't logical 
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And here was I thinking that the mistery was "why isn't it called rereduplication?". Maybe it was subjected to haplogy.
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Re: Great Unsolved Mysteries of Lingustic Terminology #416
Possibly a Gallicism. French has several words where the prefix has lost it's meaning, such as réunion 'union'.
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Re: Great Unsolved Mysteries of Lingustic Terminology #416
Prefixes have had weird semantic stuff going on even in Latin. con- has a basal meaning of ‘with, together’, right? And then the intensifier meaning was a later bleaching?
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Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.