ikileme

Turkish

Etymology

By surface analysis, ikile- (“double”) +‎ -me (“deverbal suffix”), literally "a doubling"

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /icileme/, [icil̠ʲemɛ]

Phrase

ikileme

  1. A type of (phono)semantic reduplicative grammatical construction often involving nonsense words, words of similar meaning, onomatopoeia etc.
    "Çalı çırpı," biri anlamlı diğeri de anlamsız bir ikilemeye örnektir.
    "Çalı çırpı" is an example of an semantic reduplication made of one real and one nonsensical word.
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