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DIACHRONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The study of linguistic change
Example:
the synchrony and diachrony of language
Synonyms:
diachronic linguistics; diachrony; historical linguistics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("diachrony" is a kind of...):
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Meronyms (parts of "diachrony"):
sound law (a law describing sound changes in the history of a language)
Domain member category:
derivation; deriving; etymologizing ((historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase)
Derivation:
diachronic (used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time)
