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jackIs there a word that collectively refers to homonyms and homophones, etc, and if possible also pseudonyms :) other than "homonym"?
Is there a word that refers to words typed with the same letters on a phone keypad, like "me" and "of" and "dtaj" and "fuck"[1]?
I propose:
Telenym.
Phononym.
Buttononym.
The second is a pun on homophone[2]. The last should have a greek -- or at least foreign -- word for button or keypad instead. Can you suggests a good stem there? Or any other suggestions?
Is there an equivalent of pseudonym, nom-de-plume, anonym, pseudogyny, acronym or cognomen for an online name, handle, tag, screenname, and username?
Pseudonym nearly covers it, but a pseudonym is often (though by no means necessarily) anonymous. Can we revive cognomen, please? Or coin a new word. The list at the end are fine as words, but I find them insufficient because they don't have "nym" in as all names should :)
[1] I really love this new form of bowdlerisation. Phononym will also refer to words *formed* this way, such as "book" meaning "cool" and the swearwords produced!
[2] Are universal definition of homonym, etc? Wikipedia says:
Homograph -- Words spelled the same and different in meaning. ()
Homophone -- Words pronounced the same but different in meaning
Homonym -- One or more of the above. Some people say restricted to having a different root[3].
Heteronym -- annoyingly, nearly a subset of homonym! :)
But makes it clear many people/dictionaries changes those 'or's to 'ands', add restrictions that the words must be the same or different in spelling/pronunciation/meaning/root as well.
Do linguists have any standard use, or official use and colloquial use, or can I go on using wikipedia's definitions which fit with my conception, and occasionally say things like "A true homonym" for a homonym with different spelling and pronunciation, or perhaps for one with truly different roots?
[3] Or at least different route from the same original root :)
Hmm, my formatting is odd, but we'll live with it.
Is there a word that refers to words typed with the same letters on a phone keypad, like "me" and "of" and "dtaj" and "fuck"[1]?
I propose:
Telenym.
Phononym.
Buttononym.
The second is a pun on homophone[2]. The last should have a greek -- or at least foreign -- word for button or keypad instead. Can you suggests a good stem there? Or any other suggestions?
Is there an equivalent of pseudonym, nom-de-plume, anonym, pseudogyny, acronym or cognomen for an online name, handle, tag, screenname, and username?
Pseudonym nearly covers it, but a pseudonym is often (though by no means necessarily) anonymous. Can we revive cognomen, please? Or coin a new word. The list at the end are fine as words, but I find them insufficient because they don't have "nym" in as all names should :)
[1] I really love this new form of bowdlerisation. Phononym will also refer to words *formed* this way, such as "book" meaning "cool" and the swearwords produced!
[2] Are universal definition of homonym, etc? Wikipedia says:
Homograph -- Words spelled the same and different in meaning. ()
Homophone -- Words pronounced the same but different in meaning
Homonym -- One or more of the above. Some people say restricted to having a different root[3].
Heteronym -- annoyingly, nearly a subset of homonym! :)
But makes it clear many people/dictionaries changes those 'or's to 'ands', add restrictions that the words must be the same or different in spelling/pronunciation/meaning/root as well.
Do linguists have any standard use, or official use and colloquial use, or can I go on using wikipedia's definitions which fit with my conception, and occasionally say things like "A true homonym" for a homonym with different spelling and pronunciation, or perhaps for one with truly different roots?
[3] Or at least different route from the same original root :)
Hmm, my formatting is odd, but we'll live with it.
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Date: 2006-04-25 09:25 pm (UTC)They are native Old English words, inherited from Proto-Germanic, inherited from Proto-Indo-European - and the roots are distinct as far back as we can reconstruct! "Cleave" meaning "stick to" comes from a PIE root something like *gleibh- while "cleave" meaning "divide" comes from a root like *gleubh-. Other Germanic languages, ancient and modern, have distinct forms resulting from these roots too.