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Hello, I hope you're still kind of active? I'm French, studying Japanese, which like Hungarian is an agglutinative language. And in Japanese, I noticed there's a lot of words that I call "tautologicals". The word that triggered my curiosity is 舞踊 (buyō). It's written with 2 kanjis that both mean, approximately, "dance". And it means dance. I thought that's really cool, and I found many more like this (already 140, but I'm probably only halfway), and I read 2 documents by linguists mentioning this kind of words. Interesting (and would be worth introducing the concept to wikipedia), but I think they kind of missed the pattern. My complete train of thoughts (and the 2 documents mentioned, and my list with the translations) is on a Japanese learning website called [https://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=community/forum_topic&topic_id=8122&show=44037#rmsg_44037 Renshuu], where you can see about 30 examples explained (and on the website you just click on a kanji to see its meanings). The reason I'm contacting you is that if I'm right, then there should be some tautologicals in Hungarian, although not as many as in Japanese (maybe a couple dozens?). Hungarian is one of 5 languages which should offer the most clues at this very cool mechanism of word production. So, I looked for a Wiki embassador and voilà, I hope you could give it a thought, and try to see if you can find a few tautologicals in Hungarian. Or maybe some antinomicals? (words that would be like light·dark, or young·old happy·sad…). Maybe you could even repost this in a hu.wiki page like "project:linguistics", or something like this? Thanks a lot.

[[Szerkesztő:Н Француз|Н Француз]] ^{[[Szerkesztővita:Н Француз|vita]]} 2019. június 18., 21:41 (CEST)