An anagram is when a new word/phrase is formed from rearranging the letters in another word/phrase.
An antigram when an anagram of a word is its opposite. It is a portmanteau of Anti meaning against an Anagram.
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Anagrams
Antigrams
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An etymology is a study of words. It often means looking at the origin of a word.
Interesting Examples
Note: Any and all stories that have not been scientifically proven, I am counting as a myth. This includes religious beliefs, no offence is intended.
What better place is there when looking at myths than “in the beginning”. Pretty much every culture has their own belief on how things came to be. I am going to look at, and compare just a few of them.
As told in Genesis
The book of Genesis states the seven days of creation. It says that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was currently formless. On the first day God said “Let There Be Light” and then there was light. God separated the light from the darkness, he called the light day and the dark night.
On the second day God said “let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water”. He called the vault sky.
On day three God said “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” He called the dry parts the land and the waters the sea. “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And so the ground started growing plants.
On the fourth day God created a greater and lesser light. He called the greater light the sun and the lesser light the moon. He also created the stars.
On day five God said “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” He then blessed them and told them to reproduce.
On the sixth day God created the beasts of the land. Genesis also says that God said “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” and so he created mankind, male and female he created them.
On the seventh and final day of creation God rested.
There’s different terms for words that are similar here are a few.
Homonym
A homonym is a word that sounds like, or is spelled differently but have different meanings. Coming from Ancient Greek Homo meaning Same and Onym meaning Name.
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Heteronym
A heteronym is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling. Coming from Ancient Greek Hetero meaning Different and Onym meaning Name.
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Homograph
A homograph is a word that looks the same but has a different meaning. Coming from Ancient Greek Homo meaning Same and Graph meaning Write.
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Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same/similarly but has a different meaning. Coming from Ancient Greek Homo meaning Same and Phone meaning Voice. If there is more than one word it can be called an Oronym.
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Synonym
A synonym is a word that means the same thing as another word in the same language. Coming from Syn meaning With and Onym meaning Name.
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A demonym is a term for a name for an inhabitant of a place.
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Note: Any and all stories that have not been scientifically proven, I am counting as a myth. This includes religious beliefs, no offence is intended.
What better place is there when looking at myths than “in the beginning”. Pretty much every culture has their own belief on how things came to be. I am going to look at, and compare just a few of them.
As told by Hesiod in his Theogony
In the beginning there was Chaos(χάος, khaos meaning emptiness or the void). Out of this primal divine beings emerged. One of such was(Γαῖα meaning land or earth). Gaia asexually gave birth to Uranus(Οὐρανός, Ouranos meaning sky or heaven).
Out of this came twelve titans. Arguably the two most important were Kronos(Κρόνος, Krónos possibly coming from the Indo-European root ker- to cut) and Rhea(Ῥέα most likely a variant Era, ‘earth’). Gaia and Uranus also gave birth to the mono-eyed cyclopes(Κύκλωπες, Kyklōpes meaning round-eyed). They also gave birth to the Hecatoncheires (Ἑκατόγχειρες,Hekatoncheires, meaning Hundred-Handed Ones).
Uranus hated the Hecatoncheires and the cyclopes, so chucked them into Tartarus(Τάρταρος, Tartaros The Abyss). This infurited Gaia, who planted the seed in the mind of Kronos to overthrow his father. He castrated Uranus, becoming the ruler of the Titans.
Kronos and Rhea had 6 children, who became the gods. Kronos, fearful that his children would do the same to him as he did to his father, so he ate all but one, Zeus(Ζεύς, Zeús from a word meaning “to shine” and more or less means “The sky God”). Rhea, replaced Zeus with a large stone. Zeus posed as Kronos’ cup bearer for years, gaining his trust. He then gave Kronos poisoned wine causing him to vomit and release the other five gods.
With the other five gods revived, Zeus staged a rebellion. First they went to Tartarus, to gain the help of the cyclopes and Hecatoncheries. The cyclopes created weapons for the three male gods. They made a lightning bolt of Zeus, a Trident for Poseidon(Ποσειδῶν,Posei-dawōn into the master of waters) and a helmet of darkness for Hades( Ἅιδης Háidēs generally been seen as meaning “the unseen one). Using these items of power, and with the help of the Hecatoncheries, the gods overthrew the titans.
An aptronym is a name which is suited to the person due a a range of factors. It comes from a blend of the word apt meaning suitable and patronym meaning the name of someones father. The opposite of an aptroynm is an Inaptronym, a name which is not suited to the person.
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Aptronyms
Inaptronym
An acronym is an abbreviation made up of the beginning letters of the words. It is usually also one which is pronounceable.
Alternatively, an initialism is a term made up of the beginning letters of the words. It is usually also one which is pronounced by its letters.
A similar word is a backronym. A backronym is a blend of the word “back” and “acornym”.
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Initialism
Backronym
An Autological Word is a word which describes itself.
An autological is also known as a homological word from homo meaning same. The antonym to autological is heterological from hetero meaning different.
Examples of autological words are:
Examples of heterological words are:
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“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know” — Edward Sapir
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This blog will be used to explore different linguistic techniques and the use of them. The blog may also be a place in which I will discuss different mythology and how they interlink.
Note: Whilst I have a love of language and mythology I am not the best at spelling and grammar. As such if I do make mistakes please correct me.
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Jack Jones
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