girl
—
female servant, maid
8 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ğāriyat- | |
| Meaning 1 | girl, young woman | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | female slave | |
| Reference | Lane: 416 | |
| Comment | A derivative (active participle fem.) from جَرَى /ğarāˊ/ 'to run'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme | pige | |
| Meaning 1 | little girl | lille pige a little girl |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | female servant, maid | ung pige i huset a young servant |
| Reference | DDO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | maid | |
| Meaning 1 | (arch.) an unmarried girl or woman | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a female servant | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kurux | |
| Lexeme | pellō | |
| Meaning 1 | girl, a female child | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | maid-servant | |
| Reference | Oraon-English Dictionary: 571 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | pike | |
| Meaning 1 | little girl | det var ti piker og åtte gutter i barnehagen there were ten girls and eight boys in the kindergarten |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | female servant, maid | |
| Reference | BO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | muchacha | |
| Meaning 1 | girl, maiden | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | female servant | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Narumov 1995: 518 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Zway | |
| Language 2 | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | gäräd | |
| Meaning 1 | daughter, girl | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | maid, servant girl | |
| Reference | EDG I: 1210 AED: 1939 | |
| Comment | ||