Re: Homonyms across conlangs (part 1)

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> Sarahal Meyuçnel isnerq (Sally Caves wrote):
>
> > What might be equally interesting is finding out how
> > many conlangs have homonyms within themselves, as I
> > think this is a feature of most natural languages
> > and a good source of punning..  I've been trying to
> > assign more than one meaning to words I make up, but
> > I've noted a few inadvertant homonyms in Teonaht:
>
> In Kejeb, the protolanguage of the Sohlob dialects there
> are by design no homonyms, though there probably must
> arise some in the daughters due to the sound changes,
> though I know of no easy way tpfind them in the database.
> The same goes for false friends across the dialects.
Tairezazh has, AFAIK, no homonymous stems, but there is considerable amounts in
derived or inflected forms, either of the same stem - eg, from _dák_ "sorrow"
we get both _daks_ "sorrow (acc)" and _daks_ "sad" - or from similar ones - eg
_tain_ "our, ours" from _ta_ "I", _tain_ "Terran" from _tai-_ "Earth". No doubt
there'd be alot more of this if the language had as many stems as a natlang
would.

                                                    Andreas