Number of realizations
12
tongue (body part)
→
speech
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tagalog | |
Lexeme | dilà | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | language, speech | |
Reference | ||
Related Languages | ||
Comment | Таг 110 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Farsi | |
Lexeme | زبان zabān | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | زبان را نشان دادن zabān rā nešān dādan "to put out one's tongue" |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | language, idiom | زبان مادري zabān-e mādari " mother tongue" |
Reference | Rubinčik 1970 page 754 | |
Related Languages | ||
Comment | ПРС 414. The same in many other Iranian languages ЭСИЯ 3, 404 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Adyghe | |
Lexeme 1 | bzegʷ | |
Lexeme 2 | bze | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | language, idiom | |
Reference | ||
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Comment | АдгРС 28 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Akkadian | |
Lexeme | lišānu | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | ša ibbalakkatu rittašu u lišānšu inakkisu ‘as for the person who breaks the contract, they will cut off his hand and his tongue’ (CAD L 210) |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | language | mala šunnȃ lišānu '(people) of diverse languages' |
Reference | ||
Related Languages | Cognates in Arabic, Geez and other Semitic languages (cf. SED I No. 181, where both meanings are reconstructed for Proto-Semitic) | |
Comment | (CAD L 209; AHw. 556). |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | jazyk | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | показать язык "to put out tongue" |
Meaning 2 | language | русский язык "the Russian language" |
Reference | ||
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Comment |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Latin | |
Lexeme | lingua | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | prima linguae "the tip of tongue [Дворецкий 453]" |
Meaning 2 | language (speech) | Latinae linguae gnarus "a person who knows Latin" |
Reference | ||
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Comment | cf. French etc. Glare 1032-1033 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | German | |
Lexeme | Zunge | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | eine belegte Zunge "coated tongue [Нем. 993]" |
Meaning 2 | language (speech) | die deutsche Zunge "German language" |
Reference | ||
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Comment | Meaning B is poetic. Also consider the Engl. Tongue |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Osetin | |
Lexeme | yvzag | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | language | |
Reference | ||
Related Languages | ||
Comment | Абаев 4, 279 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Romani | |
Lexeme | šib | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | language | |
Reference | ||
Related Languages | this polysemy pattern is common for most Romani dialects | |
Comment | Lovara Romani |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Fula | |
Lexeme | ɗengal | |
Meaning 1 | tongue | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | language, speech | |
Reference | ||
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Comment | ФРФС 147 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | French | |
Lexeme | langue | |
Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | pointe de la langue "tip of the tongue" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | speech | langues étrangères "foreign languages" |
Reference | CNRTL | |
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Comment |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Hungarian | |
Lexeme | nyelv | |
Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | nyelvét kiölteni "to put out one's tongue" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | language | idegen nyelvek "foreign languages" |
Reference | Гальди 1974 | |
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Comment |