reduplicative

• Müller, what lies at the root of this strange reduplicative process. —  The Prairie Child
• Skeat, rejecting the theory that it is a reduplicative child-word, like _papa_, sees in it merely a modification —  The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
• "reduplicative onomatopoeia" that captures how an exotic language sounds. —  Laudator Temporis Acti
• "In the early days, before the present scientific registration of human beings was instituted by the National Eugenics Society, man went around under a crude multi-reduplicative system of nomenclature. —  John Jones's Dollar
• Why-Why was silent, but thought in his heart that the whole theory was "bosh-bosh," to use the early reduplicative language of these remote times. —  In the Wrong Paradise

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms