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In O'odham, an Indigenous language from the Southwest region of what is now the United States, gogs means "a dog", whereas gogogs is used to refer to several dogs. This phenomenon, in which an element of a root word is repeated, sometimes with modification, within another word that is related to the root word, is called reduplication. In this case,the element "go" in gogs gets repeated in gogogs. There are many examples of this type of reduplication in O'odham.