English Words

Homophones
Words that sound the same but have different meanings, e.g 
male
and 
mail
.
Icon
A sign which mirrors to some degree the object that it stands for: the
link between an iconic sign and whatever it stands for it not totally
arbitrary.
Incorporating language
A type of language that has very long words, many of them formed by
syntactic processes which insert one word inside another or in some
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way involve compounding, e.g. the object of a verb may be inserted in
the verb itself.
Indo-European
The language reconstructed by linguists which is assumed to be the
ancestor of most European languages (e.g. English, Latin, French,
German, Russian) and some Asian languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Hindi,
Persian).
Infix
An affix placed inside a root.
Inflecting language
A language where an inflectional affix typically represents several
morphemes.
Inflection
Affixation that modifies a word to give it the appropriate form when it
occurs in some grammatical context.
Instrument
The noun phrase referring to the entity used to carry out the action
indicated by the verb.
Isolating language
Normally in an isolating language (e.g. Vietnamese) a word is realised
by just one morph. There are virtually no bound morphemes. Typically,
words do not contain several meaningful units.
Labial
An articulation involving one or both the lips.
Latinate
This refers to words borrowed from classical languages and from
Romance languages, especially French.
Lexeme
A word in the sense of an item of vocabulary that can be listed in the
dictionary. A lexeme is a lexical item 
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