word
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letter (character)
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | حرف ḥarf | |
| Meaning 1 | letter | حرف قمري ḥarf-e qamri 'moon letter' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | word; speech, gossip, talk | حرف حرف میاورد ḥarf ḥarf miyāvorad 'one thing led to another (one word is followed by another)' |
| Reference | Rubinčik 1970: 497 | |
| Comment | ПРС 283. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Balinese | |
| Lexeme | sarsa | |
| Meaning 1 | word | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | letter (character) | |
| Reference | SEALang Balinese | |
| Comment | Also 'scripture, law' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Vietnamese | |
| Lexeme | chữ | |
| Meaning 1 | word | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | letter, (written) character | |
| Reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ḥarf (حَرْف) | |
| Meaning 1 | (obsolete) word | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | letter (of the alphabet) | |
| Reference | BK: 1, 410-411 | |
| Comment | From the root ḥ-r-f 'to turn to the opposite side; to trade, to do business; to trim, to snip', to slant, to incline; to bend down, up, or back, to turn down, up, or back..., cutting edge, sharp edge; border, brink, edge, rim'. The meaning “word” is a semantic loan from Medieval Latin terminus, spawned in the environment of philosophy text translation (Praetorius 1909) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Sanskrit | |
| Lexeme | akṣára | |
| Meaning 1 | word | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | letter, syllabe | |
| Reference | MW: 3 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Russian | |
| Language 2 | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | слово (slovo) | |
| Meaning 1 | word | запомнить слово, написать слово 'to remember a word, to write a word' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | letter (character) | велико слово, мало слово 'big letter, small letter' |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1241 | |
| Comment | Example for meaning 1 - BTS p.1210. Also 'word' in Polish, Czeck, Slovak, Bulgarian, Belorussian, Ukrainian. | |
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Russian | |
| Language 2 | Croatian | |
| Lexeme 1 | слово (slovo) | |
| Lexeme 2 | slovo | |
| Meaning 1 | word | запомнить слово, написать слово 'to remember a word, to write a word' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | letter (character) | veliko slovo, malo slovo 'big letter, small letter' |
| Reference | BTS: 1210 | |
| Comment | Example for meaning 2 - HJP | |