tongue (body part)
→
cape
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | γλῶσσα, γλῶττα | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tongue of land | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Azerbaijani | |
| Lexeme | dil | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | spit (a generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula) | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | tongue | |
| Meaning 1 | the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech. | A large dog lay panting, his tongue unrolled like a carpet |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | lingua | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cape | insula tribus linguis in aequora excurrit 'the island extends into the sea by three capes' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latvian | |
| Lexeme | mēle | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tongue of land | zemes mēle stripe, streak (lit. tongue) of land |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Modern Greek | |
| Lexeme | γλώσσα | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | Ο Παππούς έχει καρκίνο της γλώσσας. Grandad has tongue cancer. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cape | γλώσσα στεριάς που προχωρεί στη θάλασσα a tongue of land which projects into the sea |
| Reference | DSMG | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Syriac | |
| Lexeme | leššānā | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tongue or split of land | |
| Reference | Payne Smith: 245 LSyr.: 371 SL: 698 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | dil | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | spit of land (strip of land protruding into the sea) | |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 230 | |
| Comment | ||