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17 realizations
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| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tagalog | |
| Lexeme | dilà | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language, speech | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Таг 110 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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: 754 | |
| Comment | ПРС 414. The same in many other Iranian languages ЭСИЯ 3, 404 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Adyghe | |
| Lexeme 1 | bzegʷ | |
| Lexeme 2 | bze | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language, idiom | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | АдгРС 28 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Comment | CAD L 209; AHw 556 Cognates in Arabic, Geez and other Semitic languages (cf. SED I No. 181, where both meanings are reconstructed for Proto-Semitic) |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | jazyk | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | показать язык 'to put out tongue' |
| Meaning 2 | language | русский язык 'the Russian language' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Comment | cf. French etc. Glare 1032-1033 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Comment | Meaning B is poetic. Also consider the Engl. Tongue | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tuvan | |
| Lexeme | дыл | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language, idiom | дылдың словарь составы 'language vocabularly' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Osetin | |
| Lexeme | yvzag | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Абаев 4, 279 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romani | |
| Lexeme | šib | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | language | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Lovara Romani this polysemy pattern is common for most Romani dialects |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Fula | |
| Lexeme | ɗengal | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | language, speech | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ФРФС 147 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khamnigan Mongol | |
| Lexeme | kelü(n) | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | language | |
| Reference | Damdinov, Sundueva 2015: 192 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
| Lexeme | xel(en) | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech | Angli xel 'English (language)' |
| Reference | BAMRS 2001-2002 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | dil | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech | |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 230 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | tongue | |
| Meaning 1 | tongue (body part) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | speech | |
| Reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| Comment | ||