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Re: THEORY: Reduplication

From:julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>
Date:Thursday, May 23, 2002, 12:49
John Cowan wrote:



>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!

According to Henriette Walter, it comes from Arabic "kîf-kîf", which
means 'identical' (< 'as-as').