period of time
→
age
8 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Czech | |
| Lexeme | vĕk | |
| Meaning 1 | century, epoch [Павлович 1976: 643] | |
| Meaning 2 | age | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | No meaning 'century'. Cf. Also Rus. Век 'a hundred years; life term; epoch' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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)' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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: 413 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | доба (doba) | |
| Meaning 1 | period of time | доба стагнације, у старо доба 'era of stagnation, in ancient times' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | period of life | доба пунолетства, доба младости, доба детињства 'age of majority, age of youth, childhood' |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 289 | |
| Comment | ||