Semantic Shift

How do the meanings of words change over time? This week, we look at semantic shift: how the senses of words drift over time, and how we can describe the different patterns we find across languages.

This is Topic #26!

This week's tag language: Swahili!

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Etymology sources:
English meat: www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_Change_Semantic.htm

English girl: www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/girl

English deer: www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=deer

Spanish rezar: books.google.ca/books?id=lV2DVLaPMBkC&pg=PA223&lpg…

English holiday: www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/holi…

Japanese sake: Personal communication

English grasp: Lyle Campbell, Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. MIT Press, 2004

English nice: www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_Change_Semantic.htm

German pumpernickel: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melioration_(Linguistik), de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel

English silly: www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_Change_Semantic.htm

French poison: www.cornelsen.de/erw/1.c.2442156.de#_1.c.2442086.d…
English immoral: www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=moral
English hearse: www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=hearse

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