flower
→
colour
4 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 |