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loanwords
word borrowed from other places in the world
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latinate
lexis which is often polysyllabic
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french
lexis often sound “elegant”
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semantic drift
the journey a word and how it changes diachronically
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specialisation
a word’s meaning narrows
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pejoration
word’s meaning deteriorates
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amelioration
word’s meaning improves
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generalisation
word’s meaning broadens
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etymology
birth and journey of a word
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obsolete lexis
words have died from the language
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archaic lexis
words that are out of fashion and no longer in use
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eponym
where a discovery, invention, or place is named after the person who founded it
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portmanteau
blending of words to create neologisms
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