acronym acronymy addition adjective compound affective meaning affix affixation Albanian alien alliteration allomorph ambiguity amelioration of meaning analogy analytic language antithesis antonym antonymy appreciative term archaic word archaism argot Armenian associated transfer association associative meaning back-formation back clipping Balto-Slavic bilingual basic word stock blend blending borrowed word bound form bound morpheme bound root casual style catchphrase celtic central meaning clipping collocability collocation collocative meaning colloquialism complete synonym complex word composition compound compounding concatenation concept conceptual meaning connotation connotative meaning constituent consultative style content word context contradictory terms contrary terms conversion couplet de-adjective de-adjectival degradation of meaning deletion denizen denominal denotation denotative meaning derivation derivational affix derivative derived meaning derogatory sense desk dictionary deverbal noun deverbal suffix diachronic approach dialectal word discipline dismembering distribution doublet duplication of synonyms emotive colouring elevation of meaning empty word equivalent etymology euphemism extension of meaning extra-linguistic context formal free form free morpheme free root front clipping front and back clipping frozen style full conversion functional shift generalisation of meaning Germanic grammatical meaning gradable adjective grammatical context grammatical feature graphology Hellenic heterogeneous highly-inflected homograph homonym homonymy homophone hyperonym hyponym hyponymy idiom idiomatic expression idiomaticity Indo-European Language Family Indo-Iranian inflection inflectional affix intensity of meaning initialism intermediate member intimate style Italic juxtaposition of antonyms lexical context lexical item lexicography lexicology lexis linguistic context literary loan word lexical meaning marked term metaphor metonymy monolingual morph monomorphemic monosemic morpheme morphological structure morphology motivation motivated native word neoclassical neologism notional word objective meaning obsolete onomatopoeic motivation orthographic feature partial conversion pejoration perfect homonym phonetic feature phonological phonology phrasal verb phrase clipping pocket dictionary polysemic polysemous polysemant polysemantic polysemy pormanteau word position-shifting prefix prefixation primary meaning productivity pun radiation range of meaning reduplication referent reference referential meaning regional variety register reiteration relational opposite relative terms relative synonym reversative prefix root root word Scandinavian secondary meaning semantic contrast semantic feature semantic field semantic loan semantic motivation semantics semantic unity sense relation sentence idiom shades of meaning shortening simple word slang specialization of meaning specialized dictionary stem structural stability subjective meaning subordinate suffix suffixation superordinate symbolic connection synchronic approach synonym synonymy synthetic language technical term transfer of meaning transfer translation loan triplet variation verbal context vocal chords unabridged dictionary unmarked term word-class word-building word-formation words from proper names