Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy
Conlangery Podcast
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The History of Lexical Semantics
This is a really interesting book for conlangers. It's a theory book, definitely. But it goes through the history of lexical semantics. One thing that pops up is he has an example from French. There's Sha, Minikat, and Sha, meaning glue with a base of starch. Because of this, there's a word maruffle, which means a big tomcat. That's actually just homophones in terms of cat and glue.
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