Morphology: Word-Relatedness - 'nyms' and 'emes' 1.1
This exercise will help you understand the concept of ‘word-relatedness’ or how word pairs are related. You should be familiar with the following terms:
homonyms are spelled and pronounced the same, but have different unrelated meanings, i.e., bank: a financial institution and the edge of a river.
homophones sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings, i.e., to, too, two
synonyms sound and are spelled differently but have very similar meanings, i.e., couch and sofa
polysemes/polysemous words sound and are spelled alike and have different but related meanings, i.e., bank as a financial institution and bank on understood as to be able to count on
antonyms are generally understood as some type of opposite, i.e., hot and cold
*Note there are several different types of antonyms which are discussed in a separate exercise.
metonyms are a type of figure of speech in which an entity is referred to by an object closely related to it, i.e., 'the Crown' referring to royalty
hyponyms are subcategories of more general terms hypernyms, red, blue, and yellow are colors
heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings, i.e., dove, the bird and dove the past tense of ‘to dive’
It is very important to note that the term ‘homophone’ in its broad sense refers to any set of words that sound alike regardless of orthography such as, homonyms, homophones and polysemes.
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