babble-word

A form of babble word — A phonemically basic word, one which is easy for small children to pronounce and which therefore tends to be produced by them early on; a word from baby talk.

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Meanings

nounbabble-word (plural babble-words)

plural babble-words

  1. alternativeAlternative form of babble word.

    […] weakens the impression that only the female personal name is the source for this word type, by taking into account the wide-spread babble-word ("Lallwort") bab, that might be connected to M. Engl. babe, New Engl. baby […]

    1986, Nils Århammar, Aspects of Language: Geolinguistics, →ISBN, page 345
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APA

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Chicago

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