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Proto-Dynic: Difference between revisions
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* ''*dūnə'' ('person') → ''*dudūnə'' ('people') | * ''*dūnə'' ('person') → ''*dudūnə'' ('people') | ||
* ''*sawk'' ('hawk') → ''*sasawk'' ('hawks') | * ''*sawk'' ('hawk') → ''*sasawk'' ('hawks') | ||
Reduplication can also be used with uncountable or collective nouns to refer to large or otherwise extreme or emphatic versions of a noun: | Reduplication can also be used with uncountable or collective nouns to refer to large or otherwise extreme or emphatic versions of a noun. The same is true of adjectives: | ||
* ''*sēl'' ('the ocean') → ''*sesēl'' ('the vast ocean') | * ''*sēl'' ('the ocean') → ''*sesēl'' ('the vast ocean') | ||
* ''*hur'' ('tall, high') → ''*huhur'' ('very tall, very high') | |||
* ''*ʔə̄c'' ('large, big') → ''*ʔəʔə̄c'' ('huge, enormous') | |||
Occasionally a reduplicated term may carry both of these meanings. For example, ''*kekel'' may have the plural meaning 'islands,' or the collective 'land, all the islands, great island, continent.' | |||
== Lexicon == | == Lexicon == | ||