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Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy

Conlangery Podcast

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Polysemous Words - How Do You Build Polymorphic Words?

Margaret, how do you build polysemous words? Margaret: It's sort of like a dot to dot picture where you start off with a primary usually concrete meaning and then kind of branch out from there. I'll come up with a primary word and then think about sort of semantically adjacent concepts to that particular word. A recent word in the Rheelen language is Temé, which means to make literally it's to make into a rock or stone.

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