Doubling

[Colin Bruce]

Can we then break these doubled words up like "wa" and "wawa".

waX is a word on its own
however, could kala mean a flutter or a flapping of wings?
(pusspuss I think comes from English but sounds like the hissing of a cat)

if tiktik = ticker? then would tik = tick?
tintin = ringer?  then would tin = ring?

My question is do other people or have other people broken these words up or have they composed
other words.  I would like to use chumchum for writing and tl'kopetl'kope for carving.  It doesn't
seem to say so in the online dictionaries.  Would anyone understand?






"Scott Tyler" <scottmd at attbi.com> on 27-11-2002 15:23:34



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Don't forget boos boos or moos moos = ? mooer
pish pish for cat = ?
kalakala for bird = flyer?
waXwaX for owl = vomiter ?
Scott
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Subject: Doubling


> I'm looking at using word doubling more.  As far as I can tell it is not
used to indicate a plural
> or an iterative as in Maori and Nisga'a but an abundance, a producter,
production or over
> production.
>
> Abundance/Overproduction
> Wawa, should I use wawa for converstation and wa for word.  Or a line from
Jacobs transcriptions
> which included hayak hayak, "too quick"
>
> Producer/Production
> Pilpil, does that just mean blood or does it mean anything that stains red
or produces an abundance
> of red?  Does that mean that hayakhayak might then be extended to mean
something that produces a lot
> of speed or speeds things up:  accelerator.
>
> Then I wondered about words that were already doubled.
>
> chakchak = screacher?
> kaka = crower?
> chikchik = squeaker?
> holhol = nibbler?
> tsiltsil = twinkler?
> pilpil = reddener?
>
> could you then say:
>
> spoohspooh = bleaching agent?
> (maybe I'm thinking too much)
>
> Does doubling have that kind of power?








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