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Both teeter-totter (from teeter, as in to teeter on the edge) and seesaw (from the verb saw) demonstrate the linguistic process called reduplication, where a word or syllable is doubled, often with a different vowel. Reduplication is typical of words that indicate repeated activity, such as riding up and down on a seesaw.
teeter-totter (North; widespread), seesaw (South and Midland; now widespread), and dandle (Rhode Island) firefly (more Northern and Western) and lightning bug (widespread) pail (North, north Midland) and bucket (Midland and South; now widespread)
teeter(-totter), teeterboard (UK and US: a seesaw) telecast to broadcast by television teleprompter (see article) (UK: compare autocue) thru* Through. An abbreviation mostly used in the fast food industry, as in Drive Thru.
In USA English a Teeter-totter is the same thing as a seesaw. The link you provided says it is a teeter-totter but I have never seen that contraption before. I would not have a problem with you making a separate teeter-totter page that says the word means both a seesaw and that device with an "also see" link to a seesaw or a disambiguation page.
Mar. 12—Immigration remains a hot-button issue in the United States. In 2019, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello created a pink teeter-totter which was installed at the United States/Mexico ...
because the resulting word must be at least three syllables long a new vowel is added to the word: kér-e-get kiütöget (ki)üt: hit (out) hit out sg. multiple times: the prefixed coverb "ki" (out) doesn't count as a syllable so an extra vowel is added: (ki)üt-ö-get hallgatgat: hallgat: to listen: to listen multiple times but with possibly ...
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After days of persistent rain and, in some instances, severe weather, AccuWeather meteorologists say that a change is on the way in the central and southern Plains just in time for the holiday ...