tongue (body part)
→
elongated object
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | tongue | |
| lexeme 2 | flexible muscular organ in the mouth | |
| meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake; in a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot | I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string [1990, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Age of Iron[10], New York: Random House, page 96] On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water. [1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 12] |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Estonian | |
| lexeme | keel | |
| meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | salient part, ledge | Neem ulatub kitsa keelena kaugele merre. Mägedest voolab alla suure liustiku keel. Sooja õhu keel ulatub kaugele põhja. The cape stretches far into the sea like a narrow tongue. The tongue of a large glacier flows down from the mountains. A tongue of warm air extends far north. |
| reference | EKSS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lak | |
| lexeme | maz | |
| meaning 1 | tongue | |
| meaning 2 | brow (mountain) | |
| reference | ||
| comment | (Murzaev 1974: 130) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | язык | |
| meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | salient part, ledge | Язык пламени. Язык ледника |
| reference | BTS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swahili | |
| lexeme | ulimi | |
| meaning 1 | tongue | |
| meaning 2 | a tongue like object | ulimi wa moto, ulimi wa mlingoti flame tongue; the thin tip of the mast |
| reference | ||
| comment | Polikanov | |