father
↔
teacher
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Balinese | |
| Lexeme | guru | |
| Meaning 1 | father (in high register of language) | gurun cningngé thy father (to Jesus from his mother, LK 2.48) |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | teacher | |
| Reference | SEALang Balinese | |
| Comment | From Sanskrit guru 'teacher' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kannada | |
| Lexeme | ayya | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | teacher | |
| Reference | Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary: 52 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tamil | |
| Lexeme | aiyaṉ | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | teacher, priest, preceptor | |
| Reference | Tamil lexicon: 581 | |
| Comment | Also: tantai 'tutor, preceptor' [Winslow Tamil 548] | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tamil | |
| Lexeme | kuru | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | teacher | |
| Reference | Tamil lexicon: 1013 | |
| Comment | Sanskrit borrowing (< guru). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Telugu | |
| Lexeme | ayya | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | teacher | |
| Reference | Brown Telugu dictionary: 77 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Vietnamese | |
| Lexeme | thầy | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | teacher; instructor; tutor | |
| Reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| Comment | ||