wizard, magician
↔
doctor, physician
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 843 | to speak | → | to practice witchcraft | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Bulgarian | |
| language 2 | Russian | |
| lexeme | vrač | |
| meaning 1 | wizard | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | doctor | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Фасмер 1, 361. The source meaning is supposed to be that of 'sorcerer, magician'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Bulgarian | |
| language 2 | Old Church Slavonic | |
| lexeme 1 | baja | |
| lexeme 2 | балии | |
| meaning 1 | I am conjuring | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | doctor | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Itelmen | |
| lexeme | клэчиʔԓʔин | |
| meaning 1 | shaman | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | doctor, physician | |
| reference | PIRS: 153 | |
| comment | From лэчэʔԓкас 'to heal' from Russian лечить |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swahili | |
| lexeme | agua | |
| meaning 1 | to explain, to interpret (signs, dreams); to predict, to prophesy | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to treat with medicine | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Also the noun aguzi ‘interpretation (of signs, dreams)’; ‘predicting, foretelling’; pl. ‘medicines, remedies’, ‘magic potions’ | |