Number of realizations
18
man
↔
person
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karakhanid Uighur | |
| Lexeme | ар | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | МК 18 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Osetin | |
| Lexeme | læg | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Абаев 2, 19 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kukatja | |
| Lexeme | puntu | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | In a number of Australian languages of the Western Desert there is only meaning A or only meaning B or the meanings of the chains of shifts - SKIN or BODY (Wilkins 1996: 286). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme | mard | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | АрмРС 462 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | man | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Cf. also the German Mensch 'person', Mann 'man', Swedish människa 'person', man 'man', Icelandic mann 'person, man'. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | homme | |
| Meaning 1 | man | homme barbu "a bearded man" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | person | la société des hommes "human society" |
| Reference | François 2008 page 176 | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Italian uomo, Spanish hombre 'person, man'. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | itim | |
| Meaning 1 | man, husband | |
| Meaning 2 | person | жегьил итим "young man" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | (LezgRus 141-142). The same in the Tabassaran AДМИ (TabRus 50). Both stem from Arabic. Cf. the Lak АДИМАНА, presumably the same root (Khajdakov 1962: 29). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | адам | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Meaning 2 | man | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | It should be noted that the word also means "Adam". I.e., there is the following type of semantic change here: <the patriarch's name> - <man>. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | киши | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Meaning 2 | man | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | КРПС 326. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Welsh | |
| Language 2 | Old Slavonic | |
| Lexeme 1 | lud | |
| Lexeme 2 | людъ | |
| Meaning 1 | men | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | people | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Also the Ucr. dial. л'уд, Serbo-Cr. људи 'the same'. Березович 2007, 92, ЭССЯ 15, 194-195 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | φώς | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | person | δύ οἰκτρὼ φῶτε "two unhappy persons (Euripides, about Menelaus and Elena)" |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | LSJ 1968 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
| Lexeme | čovek | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | The word has the meaning "husband" too | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Evenki | |
| Lexeme | beye | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Василевич 1958, 73 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | mann | |
| Meaning 1 | man | hvem er den mannen? "who is this man?" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person | den vanlige mann "the average person" |
| Reference | BO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme | mand | |
| Meaning 1 | man | ung mand "a young man" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | DDO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | man | |
| Meaning 1 | man | en ung man "a young man" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | SAO | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Icelandic | |
| Lexeme | maður | |
| Meaning 1 | man | hún sá mann ganga yfir götuna "she saw a man walking along the street" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person | hafa góðan mann að geyma "to be a good person" |
| Reference | ISLEX | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | adam | |
| Meaning 1 | man | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | person | |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977 page 24 | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||