👉 Polyemic, in linguistics and philosophy, refers to a grammatical system that has two or more distinct types of words. The term comes from Latin "poly" meaning many, and "emic" meaning type or kind (as in "type"). In polyemic systems, each word is classified into its own type, which can be either a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or pronoun. For example, the English language has three types of words: singular, plural