mouth
→
edge, border
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Archi | |
| Lexeme | sːob | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | tip, end (rope), bank | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Avar | |
| Lexeme | k'al | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning, end (e.g. of a rope, field, ), part (e.g. front part of a military brigade) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Cf. Karata эли ‘beginning, edge, tip (e.g. thread)’; Chamalal эл ‘beginning, tip, edge (e.g. rope, wire)’. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | ʔaf | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | wəsta ʔafa balāʕi 'in the mouth of the eater' (Nah. 3:12). |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | border, edge | ʔafa malbasəya (Job 30:18); ba-Ɂafa sayf (Dillmann 809) the edge of my clothes; at the point of the sword |
| Reference | CDG: 8 LLA: 808-09 | |
| Comment | Cf. Amh. af 'mouth; rim (of a glass or a pot)' (AED 1346). |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hausa | |
| Lexeme | baki | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | edge, border | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Also when expressing the meaning of ‘soon’ as “on the verge" (Khausa 31). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hausa | |
| Lexeme | baki | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | knife blade | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Possibly related to the shift to 'tip, edge'. | |
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Telugu | |
| Lexeme | vāyi (వాయి) | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | edge of any cutting instrument | |
| Reference | Brown Telugu dictionary: 1161 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | ağız | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | blade (knife); start (road) | bıçağın ağızı knife blade |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ТуРС 30. | |