Defenition of the word geminate
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Defenition of the word geminate
- arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"
- a doubled or long consonant; "the `n'' in `thinness'' is a geminate"
- arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers"
- occur in pairs
- form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
- a doubled or long consonant
- arrange or combine in pairs
- arrange in pairs
- form by reduplication
Hypernyms for the word geminate
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- arrange
- consonant
- double
- duplicate
- occur
- reduplicate
- repeat
- replicate
- set up
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