A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds.
Lexicology examines every feature of a word – including formation, spelling, origin, usage, and definition.
In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is composed of lexemes, which are abstract units of meaning that correspond to a set of related forms of a word.
[8] Examples include parkour from French, karaoke from Japanese, coconut from Portuguese, mango from Hindi, etc.
[2] Altogether lexicological studies can be approached two ways: These complementary perspectives were proposed by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
In brief, lexical semantics contemplates the significance of words and their meanings through several lenses, including synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, and polysemy, among others.
Grammatical meaning refers to a word's function in a language, such as tense or plurality, which can be deduced from affixes.