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  2. Homonym - Wikipedia

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    The words bow and bough are examples where there are two meanings associated with a single pronunciation and spelling (the weapon and the knot); two meanings with two different pronunciations (the knot and the act of bending at the waist), and two distinct meanings sharing the same sound but different spellings (bow, the act of bending at the ...

  3. Dictionary of the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1 (2004). The Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a 13-volume encyclopedia of the Middle Ages published by the American Council of Learned Societies between 1982 and 1989.

  4. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).

  5. -onym - Wikipedia

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    homonym: 1: a: a word pronounced like another, but differing in meaning or derivation or spelling—also known as a homophone (e.g. to, too, two). b: a word spelled like another, but differing in derivation or meaning or pronunciation—also known as a homograph or heteronym (lead, to conduct, and lead, the metal).

  6. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes; Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else; Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms; Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously

  7. Medieval etymology - Wikipedia

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    Medieval etymology is the study of the history of words that was conducted by scholars in the European Middle Ages.. Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Before the beginnings of large-scale modern lexicography in the 16th century and the development of the comparative method in the 18th, a scientific etymology (in the sense understood by modern linguistics) was not possible.

  8. Muin (letter) - Wikipedia

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    In the medieval kennings, called Bríatharogaim or Word Ogham the verses associated with Muin are: [2] tressam fedmae - "strongest in exertion" in the Bríatharogam Morann mic Moín; árusc n-airlig - "proverb of slaughter" in the Bríatharogam Mac ind Óc; conar gotha - "path of the voice" in the Bríatharogam Con Culainn.

  9. Medieval literature - Wikipedia

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    Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country). The literature of this time ...