colexify
Examples
“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⟳ two senses identically, but whether it can.) […] In sum, the two senses in question⟳ are dislexified in Spanish, but colexified in English. […] A language may dislexify two senses at a certain point⟳ in history, but its descendant may colexify them, or vice versa.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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