Number of realizations
11
mouth
→
speech
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hausa | |
| Lexeme | baki | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | speech, conversation | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Cf. another word РОТ: mabari ‘speech, performance’ (Khausa 31). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Avar | |
| Lexeme | k'al | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | speech | (e.g. of a person of pleasant speech, eloquent) "Напр., “человек с приятной речью”, “красноречивый”" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Cf. Bezhta сикIо-бил ‘language, speech’ (< mouth + beginning (of a rope, thread)). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tibetan | |
| Lexeme | kha | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Meaning 2 | speech, language | kha-brgyud-pa "oral tradition" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Рерих I, 228. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Japanese | |
| Lexeme | kuchi (口) | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech, words | 口と心は裏腹なことが多々ある。 "What we say and what we mean are often quite different." |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | EDICT. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | στόμα | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech, utterance | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | LSJ 1648 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Oromo | |
| Lexeme | afaan | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | Namni yommu dubbatu, afaaniin, arrabaan, ilkaaniin, laagadhaan, qoonqodhaan, hidhiidhaa fi funyaaniin hojjata "when a person speaks, it is his or her mouth, tongue, teeth, throat, uvula, lips and nose that do the job" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | language, speech | afaan Oromoo; "Oromo language, written language" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Borello 1995:8; Gragg 1982:9. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | af | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | af ṭärrägä 'to wipe the mouth' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | word, speech, language | afun awwäḳä 'to know (understand) s.o.'s language'' |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | The same polysemy in most Gurage languages (LGur. 19). | |
| Comment | (K 1347). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | ağız | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | idiom, dialect, argot | Istanbul ağızı "Istanbul dialect" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ТуРС 30. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | munn | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | sove med åpen munn "to sleep with an open mouth" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech | passe munnen sin; være grov i munnen "to watch one’s mouth; to use bad language" |
| Reference | BO | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme | mund | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | halvåben mund "parted lips " |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech | |
| Reference | DDO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | mun | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | föra skeden till munnen "to lift a spoon to one’s mouth" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech | han är grov i munnen "he uses bad language" |
| Reference | SAO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||