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Other contronyms are a form of polysemy, but where a single word acquires different and ultimately opposite definitions. For example, sanction —"permit" or " penalize "; bolt (originally from crossbows )—"leave quickly" or "fix/immobilize"; fast —"moving rapidly" or "fixed in place".
An example of false friends in German and English. In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.
The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [ 1 ]
While I agree that we shouldn't attempt to catalog every word that might be deemed a contronym (e.g., see the External link for LingerAndLook.com), and thus need to draw an objective line somewhere, I still think it would be useful to give examples of emerging contronyms (as documented by credible sources like Merriam-Webster) somewhere on the ...
M. Madame Royale; Mademoiselle (title) Mais Boum, quand notre coeur fait Boum, tout avec lui dit Boum, et c'est l'amour qui s'éveille; Mais où est donc Ornicar ?
The main objective of the PFC project is the creation of a large, machine-readable, publicly available annotated corpus of contemporary spoken French, including data from as many francophone regions as possible.
The IETF language tags have registered fr-1694acad for Early Modern French, "17th century French, as catalogued in the "Dictionnaire de l'académie françoise", 4eme ed. 1694; frequently includes elements of Middle French, as this is a transitional period". [5]
The word Franglais was first attested in French in 1959, [3] but it was popularised by the academic, novelist, and critic René Étiemble in his denunciation of the overuse of English words in French, Parlez-vous franglais? published in 1964. [4]