wizard, magician
↔
doctor, physician
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 843 | to speak | → | to practice witchcraft | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Bulgarian | |
| Language 2 | Russian | |
| Lexeme | vrač | |
| Meaning 1 | wizard | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | doctor | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Фасмер 1, 361. The source meaning is supposed to be that of 'sorcerer, magician'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Bulgarian | |
| Language 2 | Old Slavonic | |
| Lexeme 1 | baja | |
| Lexeme 2 | балии | |
| Meaning 1 | I am conjuring | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | doctor | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Itelmen | |
| Lexeme | клэчиʔԓʔин | |
| Meaning 1 | shaman | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | doctor, physician | |
| Reference | PIRS: 153 | |
| Comment | From лэчэʔԓкас 'to heal' from Russian лечить |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | agua | |
| Meaning 1 | to explain, to interpret (signs, dreams); to predict, to prophesy | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to treat with medicine | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Also the noun aguzi ‘interpretation (of signs, dreams)’; ‘predicting, foretelling’; pl. ‘medicines, remedies’, ‘magic potions’ | |