coast edge, border 14 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Amharic
Lexeme dar
Meaning 1 shore (of a body of water), bank (river) yäbahr dar 'lake or seashore, beach''
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, border ; extremity, periphery, ouskirts; on the edge of dar agär 'border lands; periphery'; dar lädar hedo 'going (reaching) from end to end; coming along the edge'
Reference
Comment (K 1733); the same polysemy is present in darəčča (K 1750)
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Armenian
Lexeme apʿ (ափ)
Meaning 1 bank, shore, coast apʿin tal (ափին տալ)
to slap on the coast
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, end
Reference Galstjan 1984: 100
Comment
SUSPENDED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Armenian
Lexeme eǰr (եջր)
Meaning 1 bank, shore
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, end, termination
Reference Galstjan 1984: 202
Comment
NEW Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Buriat
Lexeme хүбөө
Meaning 1 coast
Direction
Meaning 2 edge
Reference Čeremisov 1973
Comment
NEW Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Chukchee
Lexeme гычурмын
Meaning 1 coast
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, border
Reference Moll, Inènlikèj 1957: 36
Comment
NEW Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Armenian
Lexeme apʿn (ափն)
Meaning 1 shore, bank, coast (of a water body)
Direction
Meaning 2 (e.g. of a gorge, pit, well, city, grave, etc.)
Reference Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879
Comment
NEW Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Croatian
Lexeme kraj
Meaning 1 coast (reg.)

izići na kraj


to come to the coast

Direction
Meaning 2 edge, border

kraj plahte


the edge of the sheet

Reference HJP
Comment
NEW Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme brim
Meaning 1 coast The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (King James Bible).
Direction
Meaning 2 edge The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment From Middle English brim, brem, brimme 'margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea', probably from Middle English brim 'sea, ocean, surf, shore' ( from Proto-Germanic *brimą 'turbulence, surge; surf, sea'). Cognate with Dutch berm 'bank, riverbank', Bavarian Bräm 'border, stripe', German Bräme, Brame 'border, edge', Danish bræmme 'border, edge, brim', Swedish bräm 'border, edge', Icelandic barmur 'edge, verge, brink'.
NEW Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language French
Lexeme 1 bord
Lexeme 2 bord
Meaning 1 coast
Direction
Meaning 2 shore
Reference CNRTL
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Geez
Lexeme dəngāg
Meaning 1 bank of a river, seashore kama ḫoṣā za-wəsta dəngāga bāḥr 'like the sand which is on the seashore' (Gen. 22:17)
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, border, boundary, margin wəsta dəngāga wəddāseki 'to the boundary of your glorification' (LLA 1118)
Reference
Comment (LGz. 137; LLA 1118); the same polysemy in dəngāge (ibid.).
NEW Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Kubachi
Lexeme лум
Meaning 1 edge, outskirts дуццалла лум, шшилла лум
forest edge, outskirts of the village
Direction
Meaning 2 coast,bank.shore акIвла лум, ухьхьулла лум
seashore, riverbank
Reference Magomedov, Saidov-Akkutta 2017: 257
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 12
Type Polysemy
Language Tabassaran
Lexeme гъирагъ (ʁiraʁ)
Meaning 1 bank, shore гьюлин гъирагъ
see shore
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, outskirts шагьрин гъирагъ
city outskirts
Reference TabRus: 113
Comment
NEW Realization 13
Type Polysemy
Language Tundra Yukaghir
Lexeme аҕил
Meaning 1 coast
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, border
Reference Kurilov 2001: 28
Comment
NEW Realization 14
Type Polysemy
Language Turkish
Lexeme kenar
Meaning 1 coast
Direction
Meaning 2 edge, border
Reference Baskakov 1977: 531-532
Comment