• hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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      17 hours ago

      I didn’t mean contronyms.

      One example of what I mean is the word knight. It used to mean boy or servant. The German word Knecht still means (farmers) servant.

      Another is ‘nice’, which used to mean ‘simple, foolish, ignorant’.