year
↔
harvest
5 realizations
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | annata | |
| Meaning 1 | year | passava l’intera annata in campagna passed entire year in the country side |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | the harvest, the production of one year's fruits, or even of the leaves (as in the case of the mulberry) | la grandine ha rovinato tutta l’annata the hail has ruined the whole harvest |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | messis | |
| Meaning 1 | the time of harvest, harvest-time; poet. transf. for a year | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | a reaping and ingathering of the fruits of the earth; tThe harvested crops, the harvest | sexagesima messis, Mart. 4, 79, 1 sixtieth year |
| Reference | Lewis, Short | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | rěn (稔) | |
| Meaning 1 | year | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crop; harvest; classifier for number of crops grown in a year | |
| Reference | BKRS | |
| Comment | Old Chinese *njɯːm, compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *cn₁am ~ *cn₁aam 'year', whence Khmer chnam, Mon hnam, Vietnamese năm 'year'. Phono-semantic compound: semantic 禾 ('grain') + phonetic 念 (Old Chinese *nɯːms). | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | nián (年) | |
| Meaning 1 | year | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | harvest | |
| Reference | BKRS | |
| Comment | In the oracle bone script and early bronze inscriptions, it was originally 秂, a phono-semantic compound (形聲, Old Chinese *niːŋ): semantic 禾 'wheat; grain' + phonetic 人 (Old Chinese *njin, 'person'). Probably a person carrying wheat on his back – harvest. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Maranao | |
| Lexeme | ragon | |
| Meaning 1 | year | Peleka'an so iskowila'an sa ragon a'i. The school will be opened this year. |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | harvest | Imanto na ragon sa Ranaw It is harvest time in Lanao at present. |
| Reference | SEAlang Maranao | |
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