WORDS ( PARTS OF SPEECH )

*II. Those particular sounds or Characters, which are agreed upon to signifie any one thing or notion, are called by the general name of WORD, Verbal, verbatim, term, endite. That which is intended by any such sound or Character, is called MEAN∣ING, Sense, Signification, Purport, Acception, Import, tenor, denote, moral Words may be distinguished according to the

• Word thinking or differences between words
  • differences based on meaning ,
    • word reference
      • study of the direction of words towards a meaning which is a real structure or a definition or an explanation
        • directional semantics , semantics , directed semantics , directed meaning , directed sense
  • differences based on word structure
    • word structure
  • Differences based on word pronunciation
    • word pronunciation
  • Matching of words based on meaning and pronunciation ( phonosemantic matching )
    • नवनिर्मित प्रयोग या नीओलॉजिज्म (Neologism)
  • cognates

• Differences based on word use or function
  • Word class
    • Ontological categories
    • Numerical category
    • Function words list

Main article : Word tree

• Differences based on origin or source of a word being
  • word source , etymology ( निरुक्त , व्युत्पत्तिशास्त्र ) , source and target language
• Word parts or Word fractions
• Smallest fraction of word based on meaning
  • रूपिम (Morpheme) - A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.
    • रूपिम (Morpheme) भाषा उच्चार की लघुत्तम अर्थवान इकाई है।
    • उपसर्ग ( prefix )
    • प्रत्यय ( suffix )
• Smallest fraction of word based on pronunciation
  • स्वनिम (phoneme) उच्चारित ध्वनि की सबसे छोटी ईकाई है।
• Smallest fraction of word which forms the root of different words
  • ( root word or root )
• Word creation or Word formation or Word designing , rules directed towards the formation of words
• Word formation (शब्द रचना )
  • study of the direction of words towards towards a symbol
    • Informal word symbolism
    • word symbolism