{"id":38872,"date":"2023-06-25T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38872"},"modified":"2023-06-25T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T16:12:06","slug":"word-of-the-day-892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/06\/25\/word-of-the-day-892\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polysemy<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Polysemy<\/b>\u00a0(\/p<\/span>\u0259<\/span>\u02c8<\/span>l<\/span>\u026a<\/span>s<\/span>\u026a<\/span>m<\/span>i<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0\/\u02c8<\/span>p<\/span>\u0252<\/span>l<\/span>\u026a<\/span>\u02cc<\/span>s<\/span>i\u02d0<\/span>m<\/span>i<\/span>\/;<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0from\u00a0Ancient Greek<\/a>\u00a0\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03cd-\u00a0(pol\u00fd-)<\/i>\u00a0‘many’, and\u00a0\u03c3\u1fc6\u03bc\u03b1\u00a0(s\u00eama)<\/i>\u00a0‘sign’) is the capacity for a\u00a0sign<\/a>\u00a0(e.g. a\u00a0symbol<\/a>, a\u00a0morpheme<\/a>, a\u00a0word<\/a>, or a\u00a0phrase<\/a>) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several\u00a0word senses<\/a>.\u00a0Polysemy is distinct from\u00a0monosemy<\/a><\/i>, where a word has a single meaning. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “The race to extract an Indigenous language from its last lucid speaker<\/a><\/em>,” Simeon Tegel, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Over time, Campos, who communicates with Zariquiey in both Iskonawa and Spanish, has managed to share much of this frequently onomatopoeic tongue from the Panoan family of languages of the Western Amazon. It\u2019s heavy with polysemy \u2014 words with multiple meanings \u2014 and notable for allowing users to stack multiple verbs one atop the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polysemy: Polysemy\u00a0(\/p\u0259\u02c8l\u026as\u026ami\/\u00a0or\u00a0\/\u02c8p\u0252l\u026a\u02ccsi\u02d0mi\/;\u00a0from\u00a0Ancient Greek\u00a0\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03cd-\u00a0(pol\u00fd-)\u00a0‘many’, and\u00a0\u03c3\u1fc6\u03bc\u03b1\u00a0(s\u00eama)\u00a0‘sign’) is the capacity for a\u00a0sign\u00a0(e.g. a\u00a0symbol, a\u00a0morpheme, a\u00a0word, or a\u00a0phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several\u00a0word senses.\u00a0Polysemy is distinct from\u00a0monosemy, where a word has a single meaning. [Wikipedia] Noted in “The race to extract an Indigenous language from its last \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38875,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872\/revisions\/38875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}