Associations to the word «Diachrony»

Wiktionary

DIACHRONY, noun. The study of change over time, especially changes to language

Dictionary definition

DIACHRONY, noun. The study of linguistic change; "the synchrony and diachrony of language".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne