beautiful
↔
good
31 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
2232 | ugly, unpleasant | — | bad | Open |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Bulgarian | |
Lexeme | хубав | |
Meaning 1 | pretty, lovely, fine-looking, beautiful | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | Хубаво време. |
Reference | RNBE | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | ḥasan- | |
Meaning 1 | 'beautiful, comely'' | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | 'good, goodly' | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Lane571; cf. also ḥusn- 'goodness, goodliness; beauty, comeliness' (ibid. 570) |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Croatian | |
Lexeme | lijep | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | lijep cvijet, lijepa žena, beautiful colour, beautiful woman |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | lijepa prilika good opportunity |
Reference | HJP | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Czech | |
Lexeme | pĕkný | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful [Павлович 1976: 361] | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Pol. piękny means only 'beautiful' |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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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 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Farsi | |
Lexeme | خوش xoš | |
Meaning 1 | beauty, charm | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | Rubinčik 1970: 581 | |
Comment | ПРС 285. Borrowing from Arabic |
ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
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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 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Hill Mari | |
Lexeme | цевер | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | |
Reference | Savatkova 2008 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
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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: 687 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Italian | |
Lexeme | bello | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | bel tempo |
Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Karelian | |
Lexeme 1 | hyväččäini | |
Lexeme 2 | hyvä | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | hyväččäini tyttöni pretty girl |
Direction | ← | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | Zajkov, Rugoeva 1999: 34 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Komi | |
Lexeme | мича | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | мича чужӧм beautiful face |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | barley shoots are good |
Reference | Beznosikova et al. 2000 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Koryak | |
Lexeme | митгʼайин | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | Žukova 1990: 57 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Koryak | |
Lexeme | митг'атвик | |
Meaning 1 | to become more beautiful, to grow prettier | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | to clear up (about weather) | |
Reference | Moll 1960 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
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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 |
Reference | ||
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) |
ACCEPTED Realization 16 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Meadow Mari | |
Lexeme | мотор | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | |
Reference | Marij jylme muter | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 17 | ||
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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 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 18 | ||
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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 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 19 | ||
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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 | |
Reference | ||
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 20 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | красивый (krasivyj) | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful, nice | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good (dialect) | Мы вчера красиво посидели тоже. We had a good party yesterday. |
Reference | ||
Comment | Meaning B is represented in the Daghestanian Russian. |
ACCEPTED Realization 21 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | хорошенький | |
Meaning 1 | handsome, pretty | |
Direction | ← | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | BTS | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 22 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Serbian | |
Lexeme | леп (lep) | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | лепа девоjка, лепа као слика beautiful girl, as pretty as a picture |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | лепо решење, лепо посао good decision, good work |
Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1165 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 23 | ||
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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 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 24 | ||
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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 | |
Comment | also DEDR 318: https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/burrow_query.py?page=318. |
ACCEPTED Realization 25 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tatar | |
Lexeme | матур | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | Asylgaraev, Ganiev et al. (eds.) 2007: 2, 23 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 26 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tatar | |
Lexeme | асыл | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | Баязитова 2009 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 27 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tigrinya | |
Lexeme | ṣəbbuḳ̆ | |
Meaning 1 | 'pretty, charming, beautiful, handsome' | ṣəbbuḳ̆ mälkəʕ 'handsomeness, beauty'; ʔazeb ṣəbbəḳ̌ti ʔəyya ḥafta gəna ḥəmmaḳ̌ ʔəyya ‘Azeb is pretty, but her sister is ugly’ |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | 'good, excellent, fine' | ṣəbbuḳ̆ kədan 'fine clothes' |
Reference | TED: 2577 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 28 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Turkish | |
Lexeme | güzel | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | güzel kız beautiful girl |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | good | güzel hava good weather |
Reference | Baskakov 1977: 370 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 29 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Udmurt | |
Lexeme | чебер кариськыны | |
Meaning 1 | to become more beautiful, to grow prettier | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to clear up (about weather) | |
Reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 30 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Veps | |
Lexeme | čoma | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | čoma ńiižńe nice girl |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | minā kóirad čomad i oružj I have good dogs and a good gun |
Reference | Zajceva, Mullonen 1972: 61 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 31 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Western Armenian | |
Lexeme | ałvor (աղվոր) | |
Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | good | |
Reference | English Wiktionary | |
Comment | From Middle Armenian ałuor (աղուոր), from Old Armenian ału (աղու) 'soft, sweet, agreeable, affable', 'delicious, tender, delicate', '(figuratively) knavish, dodge, pretending to be nice' |