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no-recognition-1616 t1_j5vdfrt wrote

Linguistics: What is the law behind the Ablaut pattern? Is there an onomatopoeic reason behind the Germanic pattern I-O or I-A, which explains that specific order in pair of words such as chit-chat, clip-clap, tic-tac, tip-top, and so on?

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