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From: mikulska@faust.Princeton.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
Subject: Re: duplication?
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 00:58:33 GMT
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In article <3jmuu3$jn0_001@actrix.gen.nz> kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha) writes:
>In article <D542w0.E2I@indirect.com>,
>   stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer) wrote:
>>Not so very long ago, Jardar Eggesboe Abrahamsen <jardar@nvg.unit.no> said...
>>
>>>Norwegian: daglegdags (dag-leg-dag-s = day-ly-day-ly = 'with the quality
>>>of happening every day'). The German equivalent is tagtaeglich.
>
>Which reminds me of
>Czech: "denodenne^" = every day / day by day
>
>But I can't think of a single word equivalent for 'every week'
>or 'every year'. For example, every year is "rok od roku" or
>"rok za rokem".
>
>Do any E. languages with duplicated expression for 'every day'
>have any similar constructs made from other nouns?
>Year by year, town by town, etc. ?

Polish has "rokrocznie" (adverb), that is, "every year" and 
"rokroczny/-a/-e" (adjective), but nothing for days, weeks, or months, 
as far as I remember.

-Margaret Mikulska

