reduplications

• It has often been pointed out that many names of places are reduplications. —  The Life of the Fields
• He recognizes six kinds of symphony; in reality he employs only three, the others being reduplications. —  A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
• "By an analysis of the Sanskrit pronouns, the elements of those existing in all the other languages were cleared of their anomalies; the verb substantive, which in Latin is composed of fragments referable to two distinct roots, here found both existing in regular form; the Greek conjugations, with all their complicated machinery of middle voice, augments, and reduplications, were here found and illustrated in a variety of ways, which a few years ago would have appeared chimerical. —  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
• Vance and Lionel exchanged looks of surprise, and then, by a common impulse, moved towards the stage, pushed aside the curtain, which had fallen, and were in that strange world which has so many reduplications, fragments of one broken mirror, whether in the proudest theatre or the lowliest barn, -- nay, whether in the palace of kings, the cabinet of statesmen, the home of domestic life, -- the world we call "Behind the Scenes." —  What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01
• If we recollect that this phenomenon extends over one-half of our planet, almost from pole to pole; if we consider the shades in the grammatical forms (the genders applied to the three persons of the verb, the reduplications, the frequentatives, the duals); it appears highly astonishing to find a uniform tendency in the development of intelligence and language among so considerable a portion of the human race. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3

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