Re: THEORY: Reduplication

John Cowan <jcowan@R...> 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!
<<<
i think it's arabic, like the very common expressions |flouze| (money),
|klebs| (dog), |bled| (village), |oualou| (nothing)

Mathias


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