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English
Etymology
From pleonastic + -ally.
Adverb
pleonastically (comparative more pleonastically, superlative most pleonastically)
- (chiefly linguistics) In a pleonastic manner.
1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, Calcutta University Press, page 697:Originally implying ‘ similarly, intensity,’ from OIA. « rūpa » form, shape MIA. « -rūva », this affix is generally used pleonastically in NIA. in which it occurs in only a few words : e.g., গোরূ গোরু, « gō-rū gō-ru » ox, cow, cattle, […]
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