ß2. Synchronic and diachronic analysis of polysemy Polysemy may be analised from two ways: diachronically and
synchronically. If polysemy is analised diachronical-ly it is understood as the
development of the semantic structure of the word or we establish how the
meaning of the word has changed whether it has got new meanings in the course of
the development of the language. From the historical point of view one of the
meanings of the word will be primary meaning; that is such a meaning of a word
which was first registered. All other meanings are secondary meanings. The term
secondary meaning shows that the meaning appeared in the language after the
primary meaning was already established.