Number of realizations
15
beautiful
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good
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Lithuanian | |
Lexeme | gražùs | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | gražus véidas "beautiful face" |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | gražus óras "fine weather" |
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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) |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Czech | |
Lexeme | pĕkný | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful [Павлович 1976: 361] | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
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Comment | Pol. piękny means only 'beautiful' |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
Lexeme | lep | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful, splendid | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
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Comment | Толстой, с. 237 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Farsi | |
Lexeme | خوش xoš | |
Meaning 1 | beauty, charm | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | Rubinčik 1970 page 581 | |
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Comment | ПРС 285. Borrowing from Arabic |
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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." |
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Comment | Meaning B is represented in the Daghestanian Russian. |
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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'" |
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Comment | KT 2577 |
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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 | |
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Comment |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | ḥasan- | |
Meaning 1 | 'beautiful, comely'' | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | 'good, goodly' | |
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Comment | Lane571; cf. also ḥusn- 'goodness, goodliness; beauty, comeliness' (ibid. 570) |
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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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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 |
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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 | |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Danish | |
Lexeme | pæn | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | pænt tøj "beautiful clothes" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | pæne karakterer "good notes" |
Reference | DDO | |
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Comment |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 | |
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Comment | also DEDR 318: https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/burrow_query.py?page=318. |