Number of realizations
8
period of time
→
age
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
| Lexeme | doba | |
| Meaning 1 | epoch, time [[Толстой 1976: 90] | |
| Meaning 2 | age | |
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| Comment | The Mac. доба has the same type of polysemy. | |
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|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Czech | |
| Lexeme | vĕk | |
| Meaning 1 | century, epoch [Павлович 1976: 643] | |
| Meaning 2 | age | |
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| Comment | No meaning 'century'. Cf. Also Rus. Век 'a hundred years; life term; epoch' | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | age | |
| Meaning 1 | epoch | Middle Ages "Middle Ages" |
| Meaning 2 | age | he was in his middle age "He was of middle age" |
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|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | чагъ | |
| Meaning 1 | time, high time | |
| Meaning 2 | age | чагъына кэль "to grow up (lit. To come to one's age)" |
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| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | alder | |
| Meaning 1 | epoch, period of time | middelalder; steinalder "the Middle Ages; the stone age" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | age | dø i ung alder "to die young " |
| Reference | BO | |
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|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme | alder | |
| Meaning 1 | historic period | middelalder; bronzealder "the Middle Ages; the bronze age" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | age | i en alder af 30 år "at the age of 30" |
| Reference | DDO | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | ålder | |
| Meaning 1 | historic period | bronsåldern; guldålder "the bronze age; the golden age" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | age | barn behöver kamrater i sin egen ålder "children need friends of the same age" |
| Reference | SAO | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | kor | |
| Meaning 1 | period of time | a forradalmak kora "the period of revolutions" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | age | hajlott kor "advanced age" |
| Reference | Гальди 1974 page 413 | |
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