life
→
belly
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | život | |
| meaning 1 | life | lak/težak život easy/difficult life |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | waist | oslabio sam u licu, ali nisam u životu I lost weight in the face but not at the waist |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Old East Slavic | |
| lexeme | животъ | |
| meaning 1 | life | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | belly, abdomen | Вода добрѣ горячая колотие въ животѣ отгоняеть Hot water is good for stomach cramps. |
| reference | SRJa XI-XVII: 103-104 | |
| comment | Second meaning appears from 16 c. Also Old Church Slavonic животъ 'life; living being', Russian '(archaic, poetic) life', 'belly, abdomen', Belarusan жывот 'belly, abdomen', Bulgarian живот 'life', Macedonian живот 'life', Serbian, Croatian живот (život)'life', Czech život 'life', Slovak život 'life', 'abdomen, belly', Slovenian živòt 'life; body', Polabian zaivăt 'life; body', Polish żywot 'life', Lower Sorbian žywot 'belly, body', Upper Sorbian žiwot 'belly, body'. Slovak and Ukrainian see below. Baltic cognates are Lithuanian gyvatà 'life' and Old Prussian giwato 'life'. Derksen 2008, 563, Фасмер 2, 52 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Tulu | |
| language 2 | Malayalam | |
| lexeme 1 | uḍalụ, uḍālụ, oḍālụ | |
| lexeme 2 | uṭal, uṭalam | |
| meaning 1 | stomach | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | body, trunk; life | |
| reference | STARLING | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ukrainian | |
| lexeme | живіт | |
| meaning 1 | (dated) life | Його сивуха запалила І живота укоротила, І він, як муха в зиму, зслиз (Іван Котляревський); Боярин Семен Олуєвич підніс руку з мечем, і галас ущух. — Клянуся живіт свій покласти за князя Данила (Антон Хижняк) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | belly | Він повз на животі, стогнучи й ойкаючи (Олесь Донченко), Гафійка чухала їм [свиням] животи, такі рожеві, повні (Михайло Коцюбинський) |
| reference | SUM-11: 2, 525 | |
| comment | ||