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 | Balinese | |
| lexeme | sarsa | |
| meaning 1 | word | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | letter (character) | |
| reference | SEALang Balinese | |
| comment | Also 'scripture, law' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Sanskrit | |
| lexeme | akṣára | |
| meaning 1 | word | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | letter, syllabe | |
| reference | MW: 3 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Vietnamese | |
| lexeme | chữ | |
| meaning 1 | word | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | letter, (written) character | |
| reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| comment | ||