từ láy

Etymology
From 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1)  a reduplicative, a multisyllabic word (typically onomatopoeic or ideophonic) whose syllables are repeated wholely from a root  or share either an onset consonant, a rhyme, and/or a "pseudo-rhyme" featuring homorganic consonants ; all or some (in which case, the one meaningful syllable tend to sound more concrete or certain than its từ láy counterpart) of such syllables are often meaningless on their own; such a word typically expresses a sense of pattern, repetitiveness, continuity, downplaying, dismissal, softening or uncertainty; compare, , etc.

Usage notes

 * In teaching, từ láy is frequently stressed as being different from in that the syllables of từ láy tend to lack lexical meaning.
 * Not to be confused with:
 * Compounds of synonymous elements such as which, of course, consist of meaningful syllables.
 * Compounds of "pseudo-/quasi-synonymous" elements that just happen to share sounds such as, , ,.