automeronymy

Noun

automeronymy (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being an automeronym; the semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is meronymous to another.
   • 6.4.1.2 Automeronymy / Automeronymy occurs in a parallel way to autohyponymy, except that the more specific reading denotes subpart rather than a subtype, although it is by no means always easy to determine whether we should be talking about automeronymy or autoholonymy, that is to say, it is not...2000, D. Alan Cruse, “6: Contextual variability of word meaning”, in Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford University Press...
   • The core meaning of tangan in Malay can be translated into English either as 'hand' or as 'arm'. This implies differences in the lexical field for the human body in the two languages: Malay employs a single body part term for senses that are conveyed in English by two distinct terms. This is a case...2005, Jonathan Charteris-Black, “9 Cultural Resonance in English and Malay Figurative Phrases: The case of 'hand'”, in Anne Ife, Janet Cotterill, editors, Language Across Boundaries: British...