head
→
beginning
12 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Abaza | |
| Lexeme | qa | |
| Meaning 1 | head | wram qa begging of a street |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | |
| Reference | Tugov 1967 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | roš | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | roš haśśānā 'the beginning of the year' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (HALOT 1165-66). Cf. also rēšīt 'beginning, what comes first, starting point' (HALOT 1169). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | raʔs- | |
| Meaning 1 | head | rumiya fulān-un minhu fī r-raʔs-i ‘such a one was shot by him in the head’ |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | raʔs-u š-šahr-i 'the beginning of the month'; 1) 'in the beginning of the month'; 2) 'repeat me your speech from the beginning' [Lane 995] |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Lane 995; BK I 793) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | q’il | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning, edge, side | куьчед кьил head of the street |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LezgRus 203-204) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Middle Mongolian | |
| Language 2 | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
| Lexeme 1 | xeki | |
| Lexeme 2 | eh | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | golova | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | у головы состава head end of the train |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Rutul | |
| Lexeme 1 | кьул / q'ul | |
| Lexeme 2 | кьуля / q'ulja | |
| Meaning 1 | head | изды кьул ведере а / izdɨ q'ul wedere a I have a headache |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | at the beginning | хабарахда сифте кьуля хъадацус рахьаIт йиъий / χabaraχda sifte q'ulja qadacus raxaˤt jiʔij at the beggining, it was easy to listen to the narrative |
| Reference | Ismailova 2011: 66 Ismailova 2011: 284 Alisultanov, Sulejmanova 2019: 222 | |
| Comment | In (Alisultanov, Sulejmanova 2019) the form for 'at the beginning' is кьуле (q'ule), not кьуля (q'ulja) |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Sanskrit | |
| Lexeme | mūrdhán | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | commencement , beginning | |
| Reference | MW | |
| Comment | MW 826 | |
| NEW Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Thai | |
| Lexeme | ˈhǔa | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning, initial period, first stage of something | |
| Reference | Morev 1964: 831 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tibetan | |
| Lexeme | dbu | |
| Meaning 1 | head (respect.) | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Рерих VI, 278. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | baş | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | ayın başında in the beginning of the month |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ТуРС 97. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tuvan | |
| Lexeme | баш | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | beginning | помну бажындан ужунга yндyр номчудум я has read a book |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | The same in Karaim (КРПС 104) | |
Ср. перс. рас голова; начало < араб.