Heterosemy is a concept in linguistics. A word is heterosemous if it has two or more meanings or functions that are historically related, but belong to different morphosyntactic categories (parts of speech). An example is the English word peel: peel functions as a noun in the expression I threw the orange peel in the bin, but as a verb in Would you peel the orange for me?. Heterosemy can be seen as a special case of homonymy. The term heterosemy was first introduced by , but is usually associated with the work of .
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