Re: THEORY: Reduplication
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 23, 2002, 12:16 |
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Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> Well, 'bonbon' is also a childish reduplication of the adjective 'bon':go= > od,
> turned into a standard word (hence the strange orthography of a n followe= > d by a
> b), probably by candy sellers :))) .
I like the word _kif-kif_ 'iffy', though I don't know what, if anything,
it might be reduplicated from. Note that its English equivalent,
though not reduplicated, is instead a palindrome!
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