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colexifying

colexifying is the present participle and gerund 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 colexifying

What is colexifying the present participle and gerund of?
Colexifying is the present participle and gerund of colexify.

Words near colexifying in the dictionary

  1. colexification
  2. colexifications
  3. colexified
  4. colexifies
  5. colexify
  6. colexifying
  7. colextran
  8. coley
  9. Coley Park
  10. Coley's toxin
  11. coleys

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