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Change of meaning May be illustrated by a diachronic semantic analysis of…

- - - - hand- 'a pointer of a clock or a watch'
    - - tongue - 'the organ of speech' in the meaning of 'language' (as in mother tongue)
- - - - car - carrus - 'four-wheeled wagon'
    - - Discrimination of synonyms
        
        illustrated by the semantic development of a number of words
        e.g. land - solid part of earth1s surface\ the territory of nation
      - Ellipsis
        
        The commonest form which this influence takes
        e.g. to starve - to die