From polyseme + -y .
( UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.mi/ , /pə.ˈlɪ.sɪ.mi/
polysemy (usually uncountable , plural polysemies )
( semantics ) The property of a word , sign or symbol that can represent multiple meanings , including multiple similar ones.
2011 , Brigitte Nerlich, Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language , page 3:Fifty years ago the linguist and semanticist Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy , the fact that some words have a network of multiple but related meanings, is "the pivot of semantic analysis" (Ullmann 1957 [1951]: 117).
ability to have multiple meanings
Albanian: polisemi (sq) f
Arabic: تَعَدُّدُ مَعَانٍ m ( taʕaddudu maʕānin )
Armenian: բազմիմաստություն (hy) ( bazmimastutʻyun )
Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic: полисемия
Roman: polisemiya
Basque: polisemia
Belarusian: полісемія f ( pólisjemija )
Breton: liessteriegezh f
Bulgarian: полисемия f ( polisemija )
Catalan: polisèmia (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 多義性 / 多义性 ( do1 ji6 sing3 )
Mandarin: 一詞多義 / 一词多义 ( yīcí duōyì ) , 多義性 / 多义性 (zh) ( duōyìxìng )
Crimean Tatar: çoqmanalılıq
Czech: polysémie (cs) f
Danish: polysemi (da) c
Dutch: polysemie (nl) f
Esperanto: polisemio
Finnish: polysemia (fi) , monimerkityksisyys (fi)
French: polysémie (fr) f
Galician: polisemia (gl) f
Georgian: პოლისემია ( ṗolisemia ) , მრავალმნიშვენლიანობა ( mravalmnišvenlianoba )
German: Polysemie (de) f , Mehrdeutigkeit (de) f
Greek: πολυσημία (el) f ( polysimía )
Hungarian: poliszémia (hu)
Ido: polisemio (io)
Indonesian: polisemi (id)
Irish: ilchiallachas m
Italian: polisemia (it) f
Japanese: 多義性 ( たぎせい, tagisei )
Kazakh: полисемия ( polisemiä )
Korean: 다의성 (ko) ( dauiseong )
Kyrgyz: полисемия ( polisemiya )
Latvian: polisēmija f
Lithuanian: polisemija f
Macedonian: полисемија f ( polisemija )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: polysemi m
Nynorsk: polysemi m
Persian: چندمعنایی (fa)
Polish: polisemia (pl) f , wieloznaczność (pl) f
Portuguese: polissemia (pt) f
Romanian: polisemie (ro) f
Russian: полисеми́я (ru) f ( polisemíja ) , многозна́чность (ru) f ( mnogoznáčnostʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: полисѐмија f
Roman: polisèmija (sh) f
Slovak: polysémia f , mnohoznačnosť f
Slovene: polisemija f , večpomenskost f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: polysemija f
Upper Sorbian: polysemija f
Spanish: polisemia (es) f
Swedish: polysemi (sv) c
Turkish: çokanlamlılık
Ukrainian: полісемія f ( polisemija ) , багатозначність (uk) f ( bahatoznačnistʹ )
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: полисемия (uz) ( polisemiya )
Roman: polisemiya (uz)
Welsh: amlystyredd m