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minus-squaresetsubyoulinkfedilink5•3 months agoIf this sort of thing didn’t happen, you would just have claimed that seeing the dictionary entry makes you not hungry. (Original meaning of sad in Old English, cognate with German satt which still has this meaning.)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoThere are probably some cases were words changed their meaning from positive to negative. (I know there are in German)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoContronyms are words that hold two opposite meanings
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoI didn’t mean contronyms. One example of what I mean is the word knight. It used to mean boy or servant. The German word Knecht still means (farmers) servant. Another is ‘nice’, which used to mean ‘simple, foolish, ignorant’.
If this sort of thing didn’t happen, you would just have claimed that seeing the dictionary entry makes you not hungry. (Original meaning of sad in Old English, cognate with German satt which still has this meaning.)
There are probably some cases were words changed their meaning from positive to negative. (I know there are in German)
Contronyms are words that hold two opposite meanings
I didn’t mean contronyms.
One example of what I mean is the word knight. It used to mean boy or servant. The German word Knecht still means (farmers) servant.
Another is ‘nice’, which used to mean ‘simple, foolish, ignorant’.