mother
→
main
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2987 | mother | → | continent | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | ana | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | ana baba 'parents' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | main, basic, principal | ana yasa 'constitution (main law)' |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 54 | |
| Comment | Калька с арабского? МБ | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ʔumm- | |
| Meaning 1 | 'mother' | lā ʔumm-a laka 'you do not have mother (insult)' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | 'foundation, basis, main part' | ʔummahāt-u-hum šattāˊ; '‘their laws, ordinances, statutes, are various’;' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Lane 89-90; BK I 50-51 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Tamil | |
| Lexeme 1 | tāy | |
| Lexeme 2 | tāykkalam | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | tāykkalam 'carrier rocket', 'mother ship‘ |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | main ship, carrier-rocket | |
| Reference | Tamil lexicon | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Telugu | |
| Lexeme 1 | talli | |
| Lexeme 2 | tallikālava | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | the principal channel which supplies others | |
| Reference | Brown Telugu dictionary: 518 | |
| Comment | Also in another dictionary: talli "main, principal" (Gwynn-231) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tamil | |
| Lexeme 1 | tāy | |
| Lexeme 2 | tāyvāykkāl, | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | main, chief channel | |
| Reference | Tamil lexicon: 1840 | |
| Comment | Meaning 2: "Chief channel from which branch channels emerge" Also: tāykkalam 'carrier rocket', 'mother ship‘ The form "tāy" in Lexeme 1 has a meaning "mother", and in complex Lexeme 2 it has a meaning "main, chief" |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Kannada | |
| Lexeme 1 | tāy | |
| Lexeme 2 | tāyibēru | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | deepest root, mother root | |
| Reference | Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary: 463 | |
| Comment | ||