Re: Sturnan words
| From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 2, 2002, 22:29 |
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--- Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> wrote:
> I was going through my Sturnan lexicon and noted a
> few funny things.
> First, "speedy" and "affixed" are represented by the
> same word, even
> though they are partial antonyms.
Natlangs have this phenomenon occacionally. In
English, for example:
"cleave" and "clip" (strangely, for both) mean both
"to hold fast to" and "to cut off"
"sanction" means both "to favor" and "to act against"
Clint
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