Number of realizations
12
tongue (body part)
→
speech
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tagalog | |
| Lexeme | dilà | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language, speech | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Таг 110 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Adyghe | |
| Lexeme 1 | bzegʷ | |
| Lexeme 2 | bze | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language, idiom | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | АдгРС 28 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | jazyk | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | показать язык "to put out tongue" |
| Meaning 2 | language | русский язык "the Russian language" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | cf. French etc. Glare 1032-1033 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Meaning B is poetic. Also consider the Engl. Tongue | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Osetin | |
| Lexeme | yvzag | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Абаев 4, 279 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Fula | |
| Lexeme | ɗengal | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | language, speech | |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ФРФС 147 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | ||