mute, dumb
→
animal
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 6221 | mute, dumb | → | child (young person) | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme 1 | أَبْهَم ʔabham- | |
| Lexeme 2 | بَهِيمَة bahīmat- | |
| Meaning 1 | unable to speak or incapable of speaking | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | animal | |
| Reference | Lane: 260 BK: I 174 | |
| Comment | Derivatives from verb أَبْهَمَ /ʔabhama/ (IV-stem) 'to be, make uncertain, complicated, suspicious'. Cf. also Hbr. בְהֵמָה /bəhēmā/ 'animals (in general)' (HALOT root 1089), Tna. bähamä ‘be dumb’, bəhəm bälä ‘speak in a low voice’ (TED I 1082), Tgr. bähama ‘be dumb’ (WTS 267), Gez. bəhma ‘be mute, be dumb, have difficulty speaking’ (CDG 89). Also, in Gez. and Hbr. bəhemot ‘hippopotamus’ (CDG 89, HALOT root 1090). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | necuvântător | |
| Meaning 1 | non-speaking | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | (obsolete) animal | |
| Reference | DEX98 | |
| Comment | ||
Russo 2012. Compare also “that do not speak” about domestic animals in the Hittite texts and the Georgian p’irut’q’v-i (lit. ‘not-speaking-by-mouth’) 'cattle' (Gamkrelidze, Ivanov 1984, 471-472).