bound morphemes are not included. Items in the lexicon are called lexemes, lexical items, or word forms. Lexemes are not atomic elements but contain both...

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in...

use of the French term déjà vu, are known as adoptions, adaptations, or lexical borrowings. Although colloquial and informal register loanwords are typically...

into English. The influence of Latin in English, therefore, is primarily lexical in nature, being confined mainly to words derived from Latin and Greek...

similarities. According to recent aggregation and research, there are doublets, which are considered to be the same in terms of their roots, found in...

the development of terminology, the elimination of old morphological doublets, the flowering of literature: Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Virgil, Horace,...

called a Rückwanderer (German, a 'returner'). The result is generally a doublet, where the reborrowed word exists alongside the original word, though in...

culture. For example, a PEP doublet like fafine ('woman') becomes ʻaʻine in Mangarevan. Furthermore, a modern Mangarevan (MGV) doublet is veʻine ('married woman'...

jacket worn with armoured breastplates that would later evolve into the doublet) rather than to their drawers. In the fifteenth century, rising hemlines...

from French as well as from Latin and Italian, in order to acquire the lexical tools necessary for modernization. This deliberate process coined words...