bad
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good
6 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | French | |
Lexeme | terrible | |
Meaning 1 | bad | une terrible catastrophe an awful catastrophe |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | Il est arrivé avec une fille terrible. He came with a terrific girl. |
Reference | Larousse online | |
Comment | The second meaning is colloquial and most often occurs in negative phrases, cf. C'est pas terrible ! 'This is not great' |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | French | |
Lexeme | méchant | |
Meaning 1 | evil, bad | un méchant homme an evil man |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good, great | Tu as vu la méchante voiture ? Have you seen the cool car? |
Reference | Larousse online | |
Comment | The second meaning is colloquial. |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Khamnigan Mongol | |
Lexeme | ʒüder | |
Meaning 1 | bad, so so, not good | ʒüder kün quite a bad person, unattractive person |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good, super, very | ʒüder olon xoni very many sheep |
Reference | Damdinov, Sundueva 2015: 159 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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Type | Cognates | |
Language 1 | Russian | |
Language 2 | Belarusan | |
Lexeme 1 | blagoj | |
Lexeme 2 | blahi | |
Meaning 1 | good, virtous | |
Meaning 2 | bad | |
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Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tuvan | |
Lexeme | чүдек | |
Meaning 1 | dirty, unclean; repugnant, disgusting, unattractive, repulsive; vulgar | |
Meaning 2 | very well, wonderful, great (colloq.) | |
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Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tuvan | |
Lexeme | бужар | |
Meaning 1 | nasty; disgraceful; mean | бужар үүлгедиг a bad act |
Meaning 2 | very well, greatly, perfectly (colloq.) | |
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