big
→
numerous
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | rbh (qal) | |
| Meaning 1 | 'to be many, to multiply' | wə-hā-ʕōp yireb bā-ʔāreṣ 'and the birds became numerous on the earth' (Gn 1:22) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'to be big' | wa-ttēreb mim-maśʔot kullām; ‘and it was bigger than the tribute of all of them’ (Gn. 43:34); |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | HALAT 1097 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Meadow Mari | |
| Lexeme | кугу | |
| Meaning 1 | numerous | кугу тӱшка, кугу погынымаш, кугу контингент. Арсланыште Микайлан ешыже кугуак огыл. (Алексей Эрыкан) large group, large gathering, numerous contingent. Mikayla's family in Arslan is not very big. |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | big | |
| Reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | большой | |
| Meaning 1 | big | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | numerous | большая семья |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||