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Topic Options #205952 - 06/04/12 12:29 AM enjoin Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Oh, boy: contranyms! Can't wait to see the other four Anu comes up with. By the way--is -nym related to name? Top #205957 - 06/04/12 06:52 AM Re: enjoin [Re: Jackie] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658 Originally Posted By: Jackie By the way--is -nym related to name? One and the same. PIE root nŏ-men. BTW, I wish people would lay off that cleave/cleave thing. Two different words that just happen to be spelled and pronounced the same. Top #205958 - 06/04/12 09:29 AM Re: enjoin [Re: Jackie] zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh By the way--is -nym related to name? Yes, Greek ονομα (onoma) 'name' is related to English name and Latin nomen. The -y- crept in from another Greek dialect. It was originally pronounced like an u. Variations between o and u are rather common in many different IE languages. cleave What about to, two, and too? Three different words all spelled differently but pronounced the same. Unfortunately, their meanings are not opposites. [Edited to correct typo.] Edited by zmjezhd (06/04/12 02:00 PM) _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing. Top #205959 - 06/04/12 10:20 AM Re: enjoin [Re: zmjezhd] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass last week I posted this: the worthless word for the day is: smug [perhaps back-formation fr. smuggling] to steal, filch, run away with "What did that mean about the smugging in the square? Why did the five fellows out of the higher line run away for that? It was a joke, he thought." - James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist.. (1916) which elicited the following smug response: It means to show excessive pride in oneself. This is obsolete. Sent from my iPad Top #205962 - 06/04/12 02:02 PM Re: enjoin [Re: zmjezhd] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658 Originally Posted By: zmjezhd What about to, two, and too? Three different words all spelled differently but pronounced the same. Unfortunately, their meanings are not opposites. No one ever thinks them the same words like cleave and cleave. I just think that it's way more interesting when a single word diverges in meaning so much that it ends up with antonymic meanings. There's even single-ended words, like black, that started out one way and ended up totally opposite. Top #205967 - 06/04/12 08:05 PM Re: enjoin [Re: Jackie] RonDavis stranger Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 21 Loc: Ontario "Enjoin" is not a contranym. One either "enjoins to" or "enjoins from". Either way, "enjoin" simply means "instruct sternly". My favorite contranym is the phrase "cleave fast". The verb and the adverb reverse as a team to say that the subject goes to one extreme or the other. Edited by RonDavis (06/04/12 08:06 PM) Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8430 Members 16 Forums 13688 Topics 209816 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members supermatthias, prabakaran, sce, Eva, sylviasuper 8430 Registered Users Who's Online 2 registered (Buffalo Shrdlu, zmjezhd), 37 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 87 jenny jenny 61 wofahulicodoc 59 endymion6 50 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 32 Faldage 15 Buffalo Shrdlu 15 zmjezhd 13 teepee 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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