Homonymy, Homophony,Homograph
A. Defininition of homonymy The word homonym has been derived from greek term 'Homoios' which means identical and 'onoma' means name. => so homonymy is a relation that holds between two lexemes that have the same from but unrelated meaning s. homonymys are the words that have same phonetic form(homophones) or ortographic form (homograph) but diff erent unrelated meanings.
An example of homonym which is both homophone and homograph is the word 'fluke'. Fluke is a fish as wel a s a flatworm. other example are bank, an anchor, an
B. Homophony is the case where to words are pronounced identically but they have different written forms. They sound a like but a written differently and often have different meanings.
for example : no-know, led-lead, would-wood.
C. Homograph is a word which is spelled the same as another word another word and might be pronounced the same of diff erently but which has a different.
for example: Bear-bear ; Read-read. When homonyms are spelles the same they are homograph but not all homonims are homographs.
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