Lexicology / Homonyms Identical in sound and/or spelling The word homonym comes from the Greek ὁ...

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Lexicology / Homonyms Identical in sound and/or spelling The word homonym comes from the Greek ὁμώνυμος – „having the same name ”

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Lexicology / Homonyms

• Identical in sound and/or spelling

• The word homonym comes from the Greek ὁμώνυμος – „having the same name ”

Examples• stalk

• bank

Related concepts

Term Meaning Spelling Pronunciation

Homonym Different Same Same

Homograph Different Same Same or different

Homophone Different Same or different Same

Heteronym Different Same Different

Heterograph Different Different Same

Polyseme Different but related Same Same or different

CapitonymDifferent when

capitalizedSame except for

capitalizationSame or different

The pun, also called paronomasia

Is a form of word play

Pun Example 2

• Watching the movie Titanic is a real downer

Different sources of Homonyms

Phonetic changes: Night and knight

Borrowing: Bank

Word-building:

Conversion: comb, pale, make

Shortening: fan

Split polysemy: spring

Classification of Homonyms

1. Full homonyms: match

2. Partial homonyms:

- Simple lexico-grammatical partial homonyms:

- Complex lexico-grammatical partial homonyms

- Partial lexical homonyms

(to) found, v.found, v.

Rose (n)Rose (v) – past indefinite of to rise

To lie (lay, lain) (v)To lie (lied, lied) (v)