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colexified

colexified is the simple past and past participle of colexify.

Meaning of colexify

Verb

colexify (third-person singular simple present colexifies, present participle colexifying, simple past and past participle colexified)

  1. To ascribe multiple meanings to the same word.
    • A language colexifies two distinct senses if it can express them using the same lexical form. For example, English colexifies ‘wood as material’ and ‘firewood’, because it can designate both these senses using the same word wood. (The notion of colexification is not whether a language must express...2022 June 9, Alexandre François, “Lexical tectonics: Mapping structural change in patterns of lexification”, in Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, page 95
    Synonyms:
    coexpress

Questions about colexified

What is colexified the simple past and past participle of?
Colexified is the simple past and past participle of colexify.

Words near colexified in the dictionary

  1. colex
  2. colexicographic
  3. colexicographically
  4. colexification
  5. colexifications
  6. colexified
  7. colexifies
  8. colexify
  9. colexifying
  10. colextran
  11. coley

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