head one piece (at counting) 8 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Arabic
Lexeme raʔs-
Meaning 1 head rumiya fulān-un minhu fī r-raʔs-i ‘such a one was shot by him in the head’
Direction
Meaning 2 head (of cattle) fulān-un yartabiṭu kaḏā raʔs-an min-a d-dawābb-i ‘such a one ties so many head of beasts’; ʕindī raʔs-un min-a l-ġanam-i ‘I have one head of sheep or goats’
Reference
Comment (Lane 995)
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language French
Lexeme tête
Meaning 1 head avoir mal à la tête
to have a headache
Direction
Meaning 2 one piece (at counting) cinquante têtes de bétail
fifty heads of cattle
Reference Larousse online
Comment
NEW Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Irish Gaelic
Lexeme ceann
Meaning 1 head ceann duine
human head
Direction
Meaning 2 one piece (at counting) punt an ceann
a pound each
Reference Ó Dónaill 1977: 205
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Khmer
Lexeme kba:l
Meaning 1 head
Direction
Meaning 2 copy (of a book)
Reference
Comment Gorgoniev 1984, 89
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Komi
Lexeme юр
Meaning 1 head
Direction
Meaning 2 cattle counting unit
Reference
Comment КомиРС 775
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Lak
Lexeme bak'
Meaning 1 head
Direction
Meaning 2 person (for count) a. ттул кулпатраву арулва бакI бур 'there are seven people in my family'
1. в моей семье семь человек 2. у меня десять голов скота
Reference
Comment (Khajdakov 1962: 50)
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Lezgian
Lexeme q’il
Meaning 1 head
Direction
Meaning 2 head = livestock unitn a. виш кьил лапаг 'hundred head of sheep';
сто голов овец
Reference
Comment (LezgRus 203-204). The same in the Tabassaran КIУЛ, cf. (TabRus 214).
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Russian
Lexeme golova
Meaning 1 head Отрубить разбойнику голову!
Cut off the bandit's head!
Direction
Meaning 2 head as a counting unit (of cattle ) Сто голов рогатого скота.
hundred head of cattle
Reference
Comment Cf. головка (чеснока и т.п.) 'clove (of garlic etc)'.