Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy
Conlangery Podcast
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What's the Best Practice for Choosing the Oldest Sense?
When you are drafting a lexicon, what is the best practice for determining which sense goes first? Mark: I usually try to do what is the primary sense. There's a word that originally meant a food that was roasted termites and it changed to mean like any small finger food that you could eat. It wouldn't matter specifically what it was but just how you ate it.
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