User:Jnestorius/Homonyms etc
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Spelling | Pronunciation | Etymon | Meaning | Foo | Type name | Examples |
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No | No | No | No | Unrelated | apple—orange | |
No | No | No | Yes | Synonym | small—little | |
No | No | Yes | No | Cognate | strip—stripe, burrow—borough, skirt—shirt | |
No | No | Yes | Yes | 1 | Doublet | guardian—warden, clerk—cleric, local—locale |
No | No | Yes | Yes | 2 | Variant | hanged—hung, behove—behoove, put—putt |
No | Yes | No | No | Homophone | seed—cede | |
No | Yes | No | Yes | Synonym Homophone | faker–fakir, yearn–yen "have a yen for", outcast—outcaste | |
No | Yes | Yes | No | 3 | Cognate Homophone | layer—lair, flower—flour, grill—grille, metal—mettle |
No | Yes | Yes | No | 4 | sense-specific spelling | set—sett, naught—nought, mask–masque, magic–magick |
No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Spelling variant | color—colour, griffin—gryphon, pedlar—peddler | |
Yes | No | No | No | Homograph | lead /lɛd/—/liːd/, row /roʊ/—/raʊ/ | |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Synonym Homograph | ||
Yes | No | Yes | No | 5 | Cognate Homograph | evening /ˈiːvnɪŋ//ˈiːvənɪŋ/, forte [fr n.]—[it adv.] |
Yes | No | Yes | No | 6 | sense-specific pronunciation | used /juːzd/—/juːst/, Initial-stress-derived nouns |
Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Pronunciation variant | tomato /təˈmeɪtoʊ/—/təˈmɑːtoʊ/ | |
Yes | Yes | No | No | Homonym | spoke "uttered"—"radius", bat "stick"—"flying mammal", sole "single"—"fish" | |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | False cognate/Conflation | mean "mediocre" (from Old English gemæne)—"average" (from Latin medianus), prize "reward"–"booty", policy [certificate]–[procedure], gauntlet [run]—[throw down], a [one]-[per], meal [food]—[grain] | |
Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Polysemy | cry "weep"—"shout", light "illumination"—"not heavy" | |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 7 | "Cousin Conflation" | line (of Old English line and Old French ligne; both from Latin linea) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8 | Identical | wallaby—wallaby |
What about:
- demesne-domain? They came from Anglo-French demeine at different times and have overlapping meanings.[1] So is it Synonym Homophone, Cognate Homophone, or sense-specific spelling?
- Notes