hill
→
tomb
8 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1250 | pit | → | tomb | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | τύμβος | |
| Meaning 1 | grave-mound (Homer, Heredotus, tragedians ) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | tomb (Pindar, Aeschylus) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Bulgarian | |
| Lexeme | могила (mogila) | |
| Meaning 1 | mound, hillock, hill | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | burial mound, tomb, tumulus | |
| Reference | ESSJa: 19, 115 | |
| Comment | In Bulgarian dialects: 'small artificial or natural elevation; rounded mountain ridge', 'hill', 'a small natural hill, wooded or grassy, rising among the flat terrain', 'barrow, mass grave', 'large pile of manure' ESSJa 19,115 | |
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | mogila | |
| Meaning 1 | hill | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tomb | |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | humak | |
| Meaning 1 | hill | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tomb | grobni humak burial mound |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | líng (陵) | |
| Meaning 1 | hill, elevation, knoll, mound | qiūlíng (丘陵); gānglíng (岡陵) continuous stretch of hills; low hills, hillock |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | grave mound; grave; mausoleum; burial, tomb | Zhōngshān líng (中山陵) Zhōngshān's (Sun Yat-sen's) grave |
| Reference | BKRS: 10777 | |
| Comment | In Bronze inscriptions "mound; hill; gravemound of an emperor" | |
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | могила (mogila) | |
| Meaning 1 | hill | Druga vrsta praznih mogila su tzv. stražarske mogile, <...> služe kao osmatračnice za stražu u doba ratne opasnosti. Another type of empty graves are the so-called guard mounds, which serve as observation posts for the guard in times of war danger. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tomb | za određivanje međa koriste pogrebne humke pod nazivima mogila i gomila to determine the boundaries, they use burial mounds called 'mogila' and 'gomila' |
| Reference | CLARIN.SI | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | хум (hum), хумка (humka) | |
| Meaning 1 | hill | ниски хумови low hills |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tomb | гробна хумка, почивати под хумком burial mound, rest under the mound |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1476 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ukrainian | |
| Lexeme | могила (mohyla) | |
| Meaning 1 | high mound on the site of an ancient burial | Не бував ти у наших краях! Там же небо — блакитні простори... Там степи, там могили, як гори (Павло Тичина) You have not been to our lands! There the sky is blue spaces ... There are steppes, there are mounds like mountains (Pavlo Tychyna) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | grave, burial pit | Там матір добрую мою, Ще молодую — у могилу Нужда та праця положила (Тарас Шевченко) There my good mother, Still young - Need and work put in a grave (Taras Shevchenko) |
| Reference | SUM-11 | |
| Comment | ||
Proto-Slavic *mogyla 'hill, elevation' → 'burial mound' ESSJa 19, 115-119. Also Macedonian могила 'hillock, hill' (Tolovski, Illič-Svityč 1963, 261)