Number of realizations
21
head
↔
peak of mountain
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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 | |
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Comment | MW 826, Кочергина 518 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Komi | |
Lexeme | юр | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | mountain top | гöраяслöн лымъя юръяс "snoew clad mountain tops" |
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Comment | КомиРС 775 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
Lexeme | teme | |
Meaning 1 | top of the head | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | top (mountain etc) | |
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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 | |
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Comment | LSJ 990 only oblique case forms |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Nganasan | |
Lexeme | ңойбуо | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | top, peak | |
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Comment | НМС 2042 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Yakut | |
Lexeme | орой | |
Meaning 1 | top, crown | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | top | очуос хайа оройо "cliff top" |
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Comment | ЯРС 277. Borrowed from Mongol in both meanings. |
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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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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 | |
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Comment | Etymology unclear. Probably related to to Proto-Slavic *golva |
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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 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
Lexeme | tolgoy | |
Meaning 1 | hill, a rounded mountain | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | head | |
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Comment | (Murzaev 1974: 134) |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Lak | |
Lexeme | bak' | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | top | зунттул бакI "mountain top" |
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Comment | (Khajdakov 1962: 50; Murzaev 1974: 134) |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Chukchee | |
Lexeme | левыт | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | mountain top, headstream | |
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Comment | The same in Koryak (Murzaev 1974: 130). |
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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' |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tajiki | |
Lexeme | сар | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | top, beginning | |
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Comment | (Murzaev 1974: 131) |
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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 | |
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Comment | (Murzaev 1974: 134) |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Lezgian | |
Lexeme | kuk’uš | |
Meaning 1 | top | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | top | |
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Comment | (LezgRus 165), the first meaning is that of 'top'. |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | κάρᾱ | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | top, peak | |
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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) |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Lezgian | |
Lexeme | q’il | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | top | дагъдин кьил "mountain top" |
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Comment | (LezgRus 203-204). The same in the Tabassaran КIУЛ, cf. (TabRus 214). |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
Lexeme | tóu (头) | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | peak of mountain | |
Reference | BKRS | |
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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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