<body part>
→
tribe
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Akkadian | |
| language 2 | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme 1 | bi/urku | |
| lexeme 2 | bərək | |
| meaning 1 | knee | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | community | |
| reference | Kogan - Militarev 2003: 295-296 WTS: 278 CAD: b 255 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Arabic | |
| language 2 | Soqotri | |
| lexeme 1 | faḫiḏ- | |
| lexeme 2 | fâḥid | |
| meaning 1 | thigh; the smallest subdivision of a tribe | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | people | |
| reference | LS: 335 SED I: No. 211 | |
| comment | Also, fḫedeh. An areal Arabian semantic evolution? Note that Soq. fáḫid 'cuisse' must be an Arabism because of -ḫ- in place of expected *ḥ (LS 335, SSL 4 87). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | فَخْذ ,فَخِذ faḫiḏ-/faḫḏ-/fiḫḏ- | |
| meaning 1 | hip, thigh | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | small branch of a tribe | |
| reference | BK: II 552 SED I: No. 211 | |
| comment | The lexeme 'hip' goes back to the Proto-West-Semitic root *paḫiḏ- 'hip, thigh'. The lexeme 'part of a tribe' has cognates in Epigraphic South Arabian and Modern South Arabian. See Kogan - Militarev 2003 295-296. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | bārikat- | |
| lexeme 2 | burkat- | |
| meaning 1 | knee | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | family, group of people demanding blood feud | |
| reference | BK: I 116-117 | |
| comment | The term 'knee' goes back to the Proto-Semitic root *bi/ark- 'knee' (see SED I No. 39). For the meaning 'tribe', cf. also Tgr. bərək 'community', təbaräkä 'to have fellowship'. See Kogan - Militarev 2003. | |
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | колено | |
| meaning 1 | knee | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a part of people, tribe | |
| reference | Kogan - Militarev 2003: 295 | |
| comment | See Vasmer 2:289, with discussion. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Syriac | |
| lexeme | šāḳā | |
| meaning 1 | thigh, shank | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | kindred, tribe | |
| reference | LSyr.: 765 | |
| comment | See Kogan - Militarev 2003. | |