mouth
→
herald, messenger
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | af | |
| meaning 1 | 'mouth' | af ṭärrägä 'to wipe one's mouth' |
| meaning 2 | 'spokesman' | afen yəže 'with my lawyer/spakesman' (lit. 'with my mouth') |
| reference | ||
| comment | K 1346-47 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | mouth | |
| meaning 1 | mouth | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | herald, spokesman | His name is remembered in no tale, for he himself had forgotten it, but he said: "I am the Mouth of Sauron". (J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings) he is the mouth … of the House in its relations with the Crown (T. E. May) |
| reference | Merriam-Webster | |
| comment | ||