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face
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | mug | |
| Meaning 1 | mug | He had been drinking mugs of coffee to keep himself awake. Он выпивал много кружек кофе, чтобы не заснуть. |
| Meaning 2 | face (slang) | ugly mug противная рожа |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | "A person's face," 1708, possibly from mug (n.1), on notion of drinking mugs shaped like grotesque faces. (www.etymonline.com) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | pan | |
| Meaning 1 | pan | to grease a pan |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | face (Amer., colloq.) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | ряшка / ряжка (rjaška / rjažka) | |
| Lexeme 2 | ряшка, ряха (rjaška, rjaha) | |
| Meaning 1 | small tub, bucket | ряжка 'washtub' (Russian Western dialects); ряшка 'washtub, bucket, pail' (Russian Southern dialects) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | face (substandard, contempt., vulg. ) | a. Ряшку бы тебе за это начистить! 'You deserve to have your face smashed in!' |
| Reference | Даль В.И. Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка | |
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