Okay, I’m cheating a bit, since I already know about one true homonym in Esperanto: radio (meaning radio or ray). Do any others exist?
I’m looking for single word roots with divergent meanings, so no puns like kol-ego ⁓ kolego.
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Sendube estas multaj. Jen listo el Vikipedio.
- eno (tio kio estas ene de io) - eno (japana monunuo)
- kubo (matematika figuro) - Kubo (lando)
- gama (rilate al gamo) - gama (greka litero)
- ĉar' (= ĉaro) - ĉar (pro tio ke)
- koro (organo) - koro (mezurunuo.
- golfo (akva areo) - golfo (sporto)
- Karolo (nomo) - karolo (himno)
- flustro (mallaŭta parolo) - flustro (insekto)
- soleno (ceremonio) - soleno (konkulo)
- radikala (atinganta la fundamenton) - radikala (rilate al radikalo)
- vato (kotono) - vato (unuo)
Mi scias ke mi vidis pli en PIV kiuj ne estas en la vikipedia listo.
answered Oct 1, 2017 at 11:10
There are a few:
- Kubo and kubo the country Cuba and a cube respectively;
- golfo the sport and a gulf;
- vato cotton and the unit watt;
- piĉo vulgar word for female genitals or pitch.
There are probably a couple more, but I cannot think of any others. I will edit this answer if I find any incidentally.
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Both of you perfectly answered the question. I just felt it was most fair to select Tomaso’s answer as the ”correct one”, since he provided a longer list. A pity one cannot select two answers as the answer! :-)– BjørnCommented Oct 1, 2017 at 12:28
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