bridge
→
floor (vs. ceiling)
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Meadow Mari | |
| lexeme | кӱвар | |
| meaning 1 | bridge | Кӱварым ышташ тӱҥалыныт, свайым кыреныт (Никандр Лекайн) They began to build a bridge, drove piles. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | floor (vs. ceiling) | паркет кӱвар parquet floor |
| reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Russian | |
| language 2 | Yakut | |
| lexeme 1 | most | |
| lexeme 2 | муоста | |
| meaning 1 | bridge | Мост через реку a bridge over the river |
| meaning 2 | floor | муостаны кырааскалаа- to paint floors |
| reference | ||
| comment | ЯРС 245. It should be noted that the Yakut word has also the meaning of 'bridge', e.g., өрүhү туоруур муоста 'the bridge across the river'. However, the meaning of 'floor' must have been developed internally in Yakut. (But cf. мостовая? 'pavement'). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Udmurt | |
| lexeme | выж | |
| meaning 1 | bridge | из выж stone bridge |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | floor (vs. ceiling) | выж миськыны to clean the floor |
| reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
| comment | ||