stone (piece of rock)
→
unit of length
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Indonesian | |
| Lexeme | batu | |
| Meaning 1 | stone (piece of rock) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mile | |
| Reference | KBBI | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Malay | |
| Lexeme | batu | |
| Meaning 1 | stone (piece of rock) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mile | |
| Reference | Rott et al. 1977.: 39 | |
| Comment | ||
'stone' > 'milestone' > 'mile'. Semantic influence of English milestone in Malay and Indonesian. Many languages have also borrowed Malay batu in the meaning ‘milestone; mile’, for marking travel distances, as with Mapun batu ‘kilometer; marker along the road for counting kilometers (made from cement or wood)’, Lun Dayeh batuh ‘a mile’, Iban batu ‘milestone; mile’ (ACD).