Number of realizations
21
head
↔
peak of mountain
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Sanskrit | |
| Lexeme | mūrdhán | |
| Meaning 1 | the forehead , head in general , skull | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | the highest or first part of anything , top , point , summit | |
| Reference | MW | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | MW 826, Кочергина 518 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Komi | |
| Lexeme | юр | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mountain top | гöраяслöн лымъя юръяс "snoew clad mountain tops" |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | КомиРС 775 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
| Lexeme | teme | |
| Meaning 1 | top of the head | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | top (mountain etc) | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | *κράς (gen. κρᾱτός, κράᾰτος) | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mountain top | κρατὸς ἀπ᾽ Οὐλύμποιο "top of Olympus" |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | LSJ 990 only oblique case forms | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Nganasan | |
| Lexeme | ңойбуо | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | top, peak | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | НМС 2042 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme | орой | |
| Meaning 1 | top, crown | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | top | очуос хайа оройо "cliff top" |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | ЯРС 277. Borrowed from Mongol in both meanings. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | baş | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | mountain top | başı dumanlı "with a fog clad top (mountain)" |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme | glux (գլոիխ) | |
| Meaning 1 | head | gluxs cʿavum ē (գլուխս ցավում է) "my head hurts" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mountain top, peak | |
| Reference | Galstjan 1984 page 160 | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Etymology unclear. Probably related to to Proto-Slavic *golva | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Moksha | |
| Lexeme | пря | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | top | Шобдава шуфттень прясна лешафтольхть "In the morning tree tops were covered with frost dew" |
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| Comment | МокшРС 539-540 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
| Lexeme | tolgoy | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | hill, a rounded mountain | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | (Murzaev 1974: 134) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lak | |
| Lexeme | bak' | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | top | зунттул бакI "mountain top" |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | (Khajdakov 1962: 50; Murzaev 1974: 134) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Chukchee | |
| Lexeme | левыт | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | mountain top, headstream | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | The same in Koryak (Murzaev 1974: 130). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | raʔs- | |
| Meaning 1 | head | rumiya fulān-un minhu fī r-raʔs-i ‘such a one was shot by him in the head’ |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | highest or uppermost part, top, summit | kallaftuhā rūs-a ʔaʕlām-in tusāmīhā ‘I charged her with the heads of mountains which compete with her in height’ |
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| Comment | (Lane 995; Polosin 1995:179). Borrowed into Persian рас 'head; mountain head' | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tajiki | |
| Lexeme | сар | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Meaning 2 | top, beginning | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | (Murzaev 1974: 131) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | tête | |
| Meaning 1 | head | lever la tête "to raise one’s head" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | top | tête d'une montagne "top of a mountain" |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | (Murzaev 1974: 134) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | kuk’uš | |
| Meaning 1 | top | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | top | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | (LezgRus 165), the first meaning is that of 'top'. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | κάρᾱ | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | top, peak | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigre | |
| Lexeme | dəmḳat | |
| Meaning 1 | crown of the head, skull | fāgər ʔəntu laʔamʕitā wasuṭur ʔəntu ladəmaḳā 'whose bowels are coming out and whose skulls are split' (PPEA III:284, Lied 393:16) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | height | nəwāy šālatayā həmal la-damḳatā 'the cattle grazed on the high places of Hemal' (PPEA III:404, Lied 552:15) |
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| Comment | (LH 515) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | q’il | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | top | дагъдин кьил "mountain top" |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | (LezgRus 203-204). The same in the Tabassaran КIУЛ, cf. (TabRus 214). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | tóu (头) | |
| Meaning 1 | head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | peak of mountain | |
| Reference | BKRS | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | dǐng (顶) | |
| Meaning 1 | head, top of the head | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | peak of mountain | |
| Reference | BKRS | |
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