Word Origins - semantics, meaning change over time (Etymology 2 of 2)

This video, the attention will be in semantics.Like sound change, meaning change is a dynamic process.Consider various types of semantic change (abstract to concrete, general to specific), origins of meaning change (calques, semantic borrowings) and changes that reveal connections between meaning & use (like archaic, poetic & obsolete words).

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entomology
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semantics and meeting change
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so far we followed the trail of various forms of word has it changed over time
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but just stating that for example quinn became queen
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ignores one crucial aspect
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aspect that
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initially tracks most amateur enthusiasts of entomology
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semantics
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when it comes at a military semantics deals with the meaning of words in parts
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of words
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now some ethics tends to be fuzzy
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in two ways first the relationship between the meaning of the word and it's
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formats generally opaque
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second
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the semantic relationship between word forms given that their meeting is known
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and even between workgroups edwards derived from those same routes through
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word formation is approximately variable
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uh... consider the relationship between the meaning of house and the meaning of
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home
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or the etymological reunion remain verses reappear
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we cannot simply set simatic relatedness to true or false we have to be aware of
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the capture the gradations of meeting
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like sounded for meeting changes over time
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we can classify meeting changes into types
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abstract to or from concrete general to or from specific
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temporal to or from block itive
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we could also consider the origin of the meeting change were the influence of
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languages for example calcs
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calcs forum
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with speakers bar patterns found in another language to express the meeting
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rather than by the latin expressive expression
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we are left there for a galaxy
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english speakers to help
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we are not the act as an new native to a milky way
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other times so that the clones occur when the languages pre-existing at
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pre-existing word or phrase to cover a borrowed meaning
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we could also talk about meeting and use
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words use needed this to be described as a literary poetic archaic obsolete
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obsolescence
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jargon colloquial slaying perfer
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earth and so on
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but however we classify it's about to change is not a systematic at soundcheck
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under the rubric regularity hypothesis we expect that
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if for example of the african mister
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became there's a in a language
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words networks began with that desire will now start with mister
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don't expect the same from say an abstract to concrete simatic change not
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all abstract meetings will become concrete in the language
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last note about meeting change the basic core vocabulary of the league which
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contains words that tend not to be replaced
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and whose meetings do not shift as much that's the name implies these words
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include basic terms like
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family members
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terms for work for earth sun and other words learned early and often
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uh... let's go back and look at our entomology of queen
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you saw that the word came from old english quinn
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looks at her semantics in olde english that word meant woman
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what's more the pro dramatic word quinn is
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and most cognizant other into european languages like greek puny mean
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woman or wife
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it's safe to say that the proto indo-european root wayne also
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meant woman
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this is an example of meeting to change the meeting shifts from general woman to
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a more specific
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email mark
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as you read it amala g's or build an entomologist
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the source language
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worden meeting or indicated for earlier attested forms
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parts of speech are sometimes given such as now an adjective fervor
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language names are abbreviated and eight percent sources support more thorough
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etymology
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the complex relationships between cognizant dialects aboard boil down to
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clear examples with relevance message information given for each example
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either by choosing the most representative attested word or by
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citing a reconstructed ancestral form
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comparative examples are also cited
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again reconstructions are marked with an asterisk
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and um... words that respect as far as possible sometimes an atom ology becomes
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unclear contested in which case the uncertainty as mentioned and the
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multiple possible origins are cited
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for instance there a double animal g's in cases of influence
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the english mount fuse comes from italian food so but it's entomology was
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influenced by the french word cc
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let's conclude this discussion of entomology by considering the context in
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which we make stumble upon entomology x
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you often find them all it is a major dictionaries following definitions of
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many words
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you can
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also get your hands on dictionaries of pro delayed which route words if you're
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interested in doing entomology in reverse
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determining the words
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that have
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descended from some root word in the specific reconstructed language like
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proto indo-european or proto meyer
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a common source of etymology is is folk at a mall cheapen
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popular telling
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and retelling of the stories behind the word
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folk etymology is often focus on
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names in popular phrases like mind refusing to use
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of course folk etymology are not always factually correct
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but more importantly there'd never accurate enough to counter sterling
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which they can a maltese
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folk entomologist are interested and storytelling entertainment and
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credibility
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not precision and evidential support
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speaking of the names of automatic studies the automotive proper names
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automatics is different because the meaning of words that turn into names
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uh... tend to become to schedule the named proper comes to refer to the
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identity of a person who plays but the entomology still
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interests even non specialists
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what's more words derived from the same source
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can change in different ways when they're used as a proper nouns
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names may be more conservative overtime or capture the history of borrowings and
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interactions with surrounding languages for example
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the french name shack prisoners and old nominated singular case ending aps
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which comin down close to the french
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the spanish name croat leaders contains a difficulty group with a pattern in the
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context
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that's all for this introduction to everybody i hope it's helped you
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understand entomology from a linguistic perspective you can see that well and
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entomology will tell you
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with the word actually means that's determined by how speakers above link
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would use that word
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it does tell the sometimes fascinating and unexpected history of the
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development of words in a language
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the next time you hear a look at a minimum ology
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they'll be able to take a more critical of rigorous look at the origin of the
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word