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Cognitive Semantics : Meaning and Cognition

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7. Being opaque → being abstruse, obscure<br />

FROM VISION TO COGNITION 81<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

ogenomtränglighet “impenetrability, imperviousness”<br />

ogenomskinlig ‘non-transparent’<br />

diffus ‘diffuse, blurred’<br />

dimbildning ‘smoke screeing’<br />

disig ‘hazy’<br />

det blir oklarare ‘getting more unclear’/’less transparent’<br />

oförklarlig ‘inexpicable, unaccountable’<br />

oklar ‘unclear’<br />

otydlig ‘unclear’<br />

8. Being dark → being incomprehensible<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

mörk ‘dark’<br />

synonyms:<br />

oviss ‘uncertain, doubtful’<br />

gåtfull ‘mysterious, puzzling, enigmatic’<br />

svårförståelig ‘obscure’<br />

obskyr ‘obscure’<br />

mulen ‘cloudy, gloomy’<br />

det mörknar ‘getting darker’<br />

skumt ‘obscure’<br />

skymning ‘ignorance’<br />

oöverskådlig ‘confused, incalculable’<br />

töcknig ‘misty, hazy’<br />

9. Glare, which is not direct light → fallacy<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

skenbar ‘apparent, seeming’<br />

skenbild ‘phantom, shadow’<br />

sken ‘light, glare, gleam’<br />

skenhelig ‘hypocritical’<br />

skenfager ‘fraudulent’<br />

skengravid ‘apparently pregnant’<br />

skenäktenskap ‘pro forma marriage’<br />

skendöd ‘apparent death’<br />

skenmanöver ‘diversion, feint’<br />

bländverk ‘delusion, illusion’<br />

skuggbild ‘shadow picture, silhoutte’<br />

drömsyn ‘dream-vision’<br />

hägring ‘mirage, illusion’

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