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Words describing each other (or "amicable" words)

Are there many known pairs of distinct words that describe each other? They would contrast with autological words in the same way that amicable numbers contrast with perfect numbers. One such pair is "autological and pentasyllabic", since both words have 5 syllables, making "autological" pentasyllabic and "pentasyllabic" autological. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:02, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

You mean like "brief" is short and "short" is brief? Or red is read and read is red?--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:21, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

If I remember right, Hans Marchand uses moneme (incidentally, a worthless redirect) to mean monomorphemic/simplex word. If any of "dieme", "dueme" or "bineme" were used for a two-morpheme word, then this and "autology"; and if "triemic" were used for a three-morpheme word, then this and "autological". Unfortunately I've no evidence that any of these imagined words is actually in use. -- Hoary (talk) 10:17, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Hmmm, "trochaic" and "poetry-related"? Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:21, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

You've got "französich" and "allemand"; "Japanese" and 英語; and vast number of analogous pairs. And compared with plain "six-syllable", "hexasyllabic" is rather sesquipedalian. - Hoary (talk) 01:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

(französisch) Galtzaile (talk) 10:07, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Benicio Bryant Germany songs in competition help

Hi! On Benicio Bryant I’m running into a bit of a language barrier as well as a plethora of spammy sites.

In early 2018 Benicio “Beni” Bryant, competed on and almost won Germany’s The Voice Kids. I’d like to list all the songs he sang, all were in English and likely popular. I have the audition one and his last one but not the 1-3 or so during the “Battle Round”, and any semi-finals. I’d like to have the song, artist and source but any help would be appreciated! Gleeanon409 (talk) 23:14, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Nothing easier than that. All songs can be found in german Wikipedia: [[1]] Greetings from Germany --Stemmerter (talk) 21:40, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Perfect! Thank you so much! Gleeanon409 (talk) 05:14, 10 June 2019 (UTC)