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  2. Reduplication - Wikipedia

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    פרה פרה ‎ para para is based on פרה ‎ "cow", and literally means "cow by cow", referring to "one thing at a time". This is possibly a folk etymology, and a derivation from Spanish "para" meaning "stop" is possible. To create a diminutive: by reduplicating the last two consonants (bi-consonantal reduplication): כלב ‎ kelev "dog"

  3. List of reduplicated Australian place names - Wikipedia

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    1919 Yarram Yarram postmark – the town is now Yarram These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" many crows and "Tilba Tilba" many waters. The phenomenon has been the subject of interest in popular ...

  4. Contrastive focus reduplication - Wikipedia

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    Contrastive focus reduplication, [1] also called contrastive reduplication, [1] identical constituent compounding, [2] [3] lexical cloning, [4] [5] or the double construction, is a type of syntactic reduplication found in some languages. Doubling a word or phrase – such as "do you like-like him?" – can indicate that the prototypical meaning ...

  5. Tagalog grammar - Wikipedia

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    Dumatíng (has) arrived ang the lalaki. man Dumatíng ang lalaki. {(has) arrived} the man "The man arrived." ex: Nakita saw ni Juan by (the) Juan si María. (the) María Nakita {ni Juan} {si María.} saw {by (the) Juan} {(the) María} "Juan saw María." Note that in Tagalog, even proper nouns require a case marker. ex: Pupunta will go siná PL. NOM. ART Elena Elena at and Roberto Roberto sa at ...

  6. Ilocano verbs - Wikipedia

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    Take for example, the English phrase The student saved the file. In this phrase, the file is the noun phrase in the patient role (the direct object). In Ilocano, however, the same noun phrase would be cast in the thematic role and the verb in the thematic focus, instead, Indulin ti estudiante ti file because of the semantics of the verb.

  7. Category:Reduplication - Wikipedia

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  8. Malay grammar - Wikipedia

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    Partial reduplication (kata ganda separa (Malaysian) or kata ulang sebagian (Indonesian) or dwipurwa) Rhythmic reduplication (kata ganda berentak (Malaysian) or kata ulang salin suara (Indonesian)) Reduplication of meaning [clarification needed] Full reduplication is the complete duplication of the word, separated by a dash (-).

  9. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...