Re: THEORY: Reduplication
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 23, 2002, 13:22 |
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En réponse à Kala Tunu <kalatunu@...>:
> <<<
> i think it's arabic, like the very common expressions |flouze|
> (money),
> |klebs| (dog), |bled| (village), |oualou| (nothing)
>
I was about to give the same answer. Funny enough, French is full of Arabic
loanwords, both in very low registers (like the examples you gave) or quite
high registers (like the word alcool, and more generally most words beginning
with al like almanach :)) ).
Christophe.
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