hair
→
grass
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigre | |
| Lexeme | šabib | |
| Meaning 1 | hair (of the head of men) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | grass | |
| Reference | WTS: 217 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Welsh | |
| Lexeme 1 | gwellt | |
| Lexeme 2 | gwallt | |
| Meaning 1 | grass | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | hair | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Buck 520. Also the Breton guelt (geot) 'grass', Old Irish folt 'hair', Cornish gwels 'grass', Cornish gols 'hair', Scottish Gaelic falt 'hair', Manx folt 'hair'. Proto-Celtic *woltos 'hair (of a head)' Matasović 2009 427=428 |
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