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.'


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