Number of realizations
15
beautiful
→
good
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lithuanian | |
| Lexeme | gražùs | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | gražus véidas "beautiful face" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | gražus óras "fine weather" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | LRŽ 202. The same in colloquial Russian speech in Lithuania under the influence of Lithuanian: красивая погода 'fine weather' (Авина Н. А. Региональные семантические особенности русского языка в Литве // Проблемы семантического анализа лексики. Тезисы докладов международной конференции. М., 2002. С. 4-5) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Czech | |
| Lexeme | pĕkný | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful [Павлович 1976: 361] | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | Pol. piękny means only 'beautiful' | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
| Lexeme | lep | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful, splendid | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | Толстой, с. 237 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | خوش xoš | |
| Meaning 1 | beauty, charm | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | Rubinčik 1970 page 581 | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ПРС 285. Borrowing from Arabic | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | krasivyj | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful, nice | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good (dialect) | Мы вчера красиво посидели тоже. "We had a good party yesterday." |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | Meaning B is represented in the Daghestanian Russian. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | ṣəbbuḳ̆ | |
| Meaning 1 | 'pretty, charming, beautiful, handsome' | ṣəbbuḳ̆ mälkəʕ "'handsomeness, beauty'" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'good, excellent, fine' | ṣəbbuḳ kədan "'fine clothes'" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | KT 2577 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Old East Slavic | |
| Language 2 | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | хорошии | |
| Lexeme 2 | horošij | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful, decorated | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ḥasan- | |
| Meaning 1 | 'beautiful, comely'' | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'good, goodly' | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Lane571; cf. also ḥusn- 'goodness, goodliness; beauty, comeliness' (ibid. 570) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | beau | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | une belle fleur "a beautiful flower" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | satisfactory | Nous sommes heureux de ce beau résultat; Il fait beau "We are happy with these good results; The weather is fine" |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | vakker | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | et vakkert landskap "a beautiful landskape" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | en vakker handling "a good action" |
| Reference | BO | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | pen | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | en pen hage "a beautiful garden" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | pent vær "fine weather" |
| Reference | BO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme | pæn | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | pænt tøj "beautiful clothes" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | pæne karakterer "good notes" |
| Reference | DDO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | vacker | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | vackra vita tänder "beautiful white teeth" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | med den nya metoden har man nått vackra resultat "there have been achieved good results with the help of the new method" |
| Reference | SAO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | szép | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | szép nő "a beautiful woman" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | szép idő "fine weather" |
| Reference | Гальди 1974 page 687 | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Tamil | |
| Language 2 | Telugu | |
| Lexeme 1 | *nal- | |
| Lexeme 2 | naluvu | |
| Meaning 1 | good | |
| Direction | ↔ | |
| Meaning 2 | beauty, ability; beautiful. | |
| Reference | STARLING | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | also DEDR 318: https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/burrow_query.py?page=318. | |