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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There are probably some cases were words changed their meaning from positive to negative. (I know there are in German)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Contronyms are words that hold two opposite meanings

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  • I didn’t mean contronyms.

    One example of what I mean is the word knight. It used to mean boy or servant. The German word Knecht still means (farmers) servant.

    Another is ‘nice’, which used to mean ‘simple, foolish, ignorant’.

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