Colexification

In semantics and lexical typology, colexification is the ability for a language to express different meanings with the same word.

When a language colexifies several concepts, this is generally understood as a sign that these concepts are semantically related. Research in lexical typology has thus been using colexification as a tool to measure semantic similarity between concepts.

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