flower
→
colour
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Old Slavonic | |
| Language 2 | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | цвѣтъ | |
| Lexeme 2 | cvet | |
| Meaning 1 | flower | |
| Meaning 2 | colour | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | ἄνθος | |
| Meaning 1 | flower | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | colour; the elect of | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | LSJ 140 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Russian | |
| Language 2 | Belarusan | |
| Lexeme | kraska | |
| Meaning 1 | paint | |
| Meaning 2 | flower | палявыя краскi field flowers |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | РБС 3, 701 | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Latin | |
| Language 2 | Late Latin | |
| Lexeme 1 | color | |
| Lexeme 2 | colores (pl.) | |
| Meaning 1 | flower | color albus white colour |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | colour | aspice, quos submittit humus formosa colores look at the beatiful flowers that the earth gives birth to. |
| Reference | Dvoreckij 1958: 206 | |
| Comment | ||