Polysemy vs. Homophony (was RE: Dakota zipA ...)

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Mon Oct 14 22:58:38 UTC 2002


>>So, are 'bridal TRAIN', choo choo TRAIN and TRAIN for the Olympics examples
>>of homophony or polysemy?  ;-)
>
>
> I should probably let Alan Hartley answer this one, but I think that the
> first two are etymologically related.  Something about 'following'.

Yup.



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