Doubled Prefixes (Redux)
A little stutter at the start.
Edward L. Wolpow contributed an article to the original Word Ways about “doubled prefixes,” including micromicron, antiantitoxin, great-great-grandfather, and re-record. Naturally, I wondered what true doubled prefixes existed in more modern English. OneLook offered up a set of 78 root words, using twenty common prefixes and all the prefixes Wolpow tried. I have not tried to reproduce Wolpow’s “variant-spelling” double prefixes like hemi-, demi-, and semi- in hemidemisemiquaver. Those register as distinct to me.
anti-anti
anti-anti-American
anti-anti-art
anti-antibody
anti-anti-communism
anti-antifa
anti-antifeminism
anti-anti-generation
anti-antisemitism
anti-antitoxin
countercounterargument
countercountermeasure
countercounterproposal
great-great-grandchild
great-great-granddaughter
great-great-grandfather
great-great-grandma
great-great-grandmother
great-great-grandpa
great-great-grandparent
great-great-grandson
great-great-great-grandfather
great-great-great-grandmother
micromicrocurie
micromicrofarad
micromicrogram
micromicron
micromicrowatt
picopicogram
preprepared
rerecommend
rerecord
rerecovery
reredose
rereduce
reredundant
rerefer
rereference
rerefine
rereinforce
re-reiterate
rereject
rerelease
reremain
reremember
reremind
reremix
re-re-opening
rerepeal
rereplicate
rereport
rerequest
reresection
reresolve
rerestart
rerestitution
rerestore
reretreat
rereturn
rereview
rerevise
rereward
re-rewind
subsuburbs
subsubchapter
subsubcontractor
subsubproblem
subsubroutine
subsubsection
subsubsequence
subsubsubsection
subsubtype
sub-subunit
uniunivalent
un-uninstallable
unundoable
ununsabbathable
ununtitled
It’s not hard to conceive of more that everyone would accept with a little imagination: the image above suggests re-rerun. But the appearance of these on the list suggests a certain standard of common use.
Any I've overlooked?


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Not exactly double prefixes, but the following sure LOOK like they are: aardvark, ananke, cocoa, coconspirator, coconut, cocoon, cocotte, ex-executive, ununderstandable, ununited… On the other hand, I guess a case could be made for contra-contrabass, extra-extra-large, hyper-hypersonic, over-overkill, post-postmodernism, and other variants of that ilk.