flower
→
colour
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | ἄνθος | |
| meaning 1 | flower | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | colour; the elect of | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | LSJ 140 | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Old Church Slavonic | |
| language 2 | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | цвѣтъ | |
| lexeme 2 | cvet | |
| meaning 1 | flower | |
| meaning 2 | colour | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |