http://www.wordnik.com/lists/etymological-curiosities.xml Convergences. <br /> <br />None of these are <a href="/words/polysemous">polysemous</a> (identically-written words with different, but related meanings) or <a href="/words/heterosemous">heterosemous</a> (as before &mdash; related meanings, but which vary according to the word's placement as a different <a href="/words/part of speech">part of speech</a>): they all have at least two meanings with distinct etymological roots. You may also be interested in <a href="/words/doublet">doublet</a>s, which are an almost-but-not-quite opposing concept (<a href="/words/q.v.">q.v.</a>) <br /> <br />Some of these are not here for the reasons you might think. <br /> <br /><a href="/words/Also-ran">Also-ran</a>s: <a href="/words/dear">dear</a>, <a href="/words/hack">hack</a>, <a href="/words/pelt">pelt</a>, <a href="/words/game">game</a>, <a href="/words/rifle">rifle</a>, <a href="/words/pant">pant</a>, <a href="/words/wax">wax</a>, <a href="/words/peck">peck</a>, <a href="/words/pile">pile</a>, <a href="/words/loaf">loaf</a>, <a href="/words/swan">swan</a>, <a href="/words/wag">wag</a>, <a href="/words/fit">fit</a>, <a href="/words/list">list</a>, <a href="/words/hedge">hedge</a>, <a href="/words/lark">lark</a>, <a href="/words/stock">stock</a>, <a href="/words/right">right</a>, <a href="/words/stalk">stalk</a>, <a href="/words/bank">bank</a>, <a href="/words/shag">shag</a>, <a href="/words/lap">lap</a>, <a href="/words/plain">plain</a>, <a href="/words/pluck">pluck</a>, <a href="/words/type">type</a>, <a href="/words/lick">lick</a>, <a href="/words/pile">pile</a> (all linked or dubious); <a href="/words/madder">madder</a> (not really a word meaning "more mad"); <a href="/words/pace">pace</a>, <a href="/words/tear">tear</a> (homographs, but not homonyms). <br /> <br />Not including obsolete words (though some are rare, and I'm not convinced they belong here &mdash; like <a href="/words/bent">bent</a>, <a href="/words/riddle">riddle</a>, <a href="/words/rob">rob</a>); I'm not sure about dialect/slang. The line is fuzzy. <br /> <br />I'm not sure whether I ought to include conjugated verbs, such as <a href="/words/rose">rose</a>, <a href="/words/left">left</a> and <a href="/words/leaves">leaves</a>; declined nouns, such as <a href="/words/divers">divers</a>; or other vastly different parts of speech, such as <a href="/words/mine">mine</a>, <a href="/words/may">may</a> and <a href="/words/mere">mere</a>. Or abbreviations? 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