originally meant 'the first horse day of the fifth month'. However, go is a homonym for five (五) in Japanese, so during the Nara period the meaning shifted...

to eat nian gao during this time of the year because nian gao (年糕) is a homonym for "higher year" or "grow every year" (年高), which means "a more prosperous...

location as "a Mecca or Jerusalem within the Star Wars world". It is also a homonym for Jeddah, the principal gateway to Mecca. Jelucan Star Wars: Lost Stars...

/eɪ/ before /ɡ/ has been reported, making, for example, haggle and Hegel homonyms. In accents that have undergone the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, mostly...

Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...

words in which the /ð/ is not initial, e.g. other, which can thus become a homonym of utter-udder. But it would not be usual for southern to be pronounced...

reading of 4 (shi) suggests death, while 9 (ku) can also be read as a homonym for suffering or torture. Thus, a comb, or kushi is a carefully avoided...

Emperor's birthday. "Sugarcane" (Chinese: 甘蔗; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-chià) is a near homonym to "thank you" (Chinese: 感謝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-siā) in the Hokkien dialect...

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as a binomial compound. Van Gulik distinguishes nao 猱 "gibbon" from the homonym nao 獶 "monkey" (with a you 憂 phonetic replacing the uncommon 夒 in nao 獿)...