What are the causes of semantic change?Please use English to explain~Thx~

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What are the causes of semantic change?
Please use English to explain~Thx~

semantic 语义的 意思
what are the reasons of semantic change?

Every word has a variety of senses and connotations which can be added, removed, or altered over time, often to the extent that words of one time period mean quite different things to the same words as spoken in a previous time. Moreover, two words derived from the same original may develop in very distinct ways: cognates across languages often look very similar but mean entirely different things.

semantic change is a change in one of the meanings of a word.Every word has a variety of senses and connotations which can be added,removed,or altered over time,often to the extent that words of one t...