old man husband 54 realizations
NEW Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Alabama
Lexeme naanichòoba
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Alabama dictionary
Comment

Also   imaatchòoba 'husband '

achòoba ' to be old, mature, be a senior citizen, be elderly; to be old and worn out'

NEW Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Aleut
Lexeme aligaanguusi-ng
Meaning 1 my old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Bergsland 1994: 54
Comment
NEW Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Alutiiq Alaskan Yupik
Lexeme aŋun
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 (informally) husband
Reference Fortescue et al. 2010: 38
Comment
NEW Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Anuta
Lexeme matua
Meaning 1 adult, mature
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference ACD
Comment
NEW Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Casiguran Dumagat
Lexeme lakáy
Meaning 1 old man (also used as a vocative in addressing old men); to become old, of male humans
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference ACD
Comment

From Proto-West-Malayo-Polynesian *lakay 'grandfather'

NEW Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Chʼol
Lexeme 1 ñox
Lexeme 2 ñoxi'al
Meaning 1 old
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Aulie, Aulie 2009: 65
Comment
NEW Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Dupaningan Agta
Lexeme lá-lakay
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference ACD
Comment From Proto-West-Malayo-Polynesian *lakay 'grandfather'
NEW Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme old man
Meaning 1 elderly man
Direction
Meaning 2 (slang) husband, or male significant other, irrespective of age

“ […] Now if that thing is balling—and your old lady or your old man is off somewhere flashing and doesn't want to be touched—well, you get put down on acid, you can be on a bummer for months.” (1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”)

Reference English Wiktionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Erzya
Lexeme атя
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference
Comment ЭрзРС 63
NEW Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Forest Nenets
Lexeme вӭʼʼкку
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Barmič, Vèllo 2002: 24
Comment
NEW Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Gagauz
Lexeme koca
Meaning 1 aged, old
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Gagauzça-rusça-romınca sözlük = Гагаузско-русско-румынский словарь = Dicţionar găgăuz-rus-român / Fundaţia pentru susţinerea şi dezvoltarea ştiinţei şi culturii găgăuzilor "CAINAC"; alcăt. P. Cebotari, I. Dron. - Ch.: PONTOS, 2002

NEW Realization 12
Type Polysemy
Language Hopi
Lexeme wuutaqa
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Albert, Shaul 1985: 108
Comment
NEW Realization 13
Type Polysemy
Language Ilocano
Lexeme lakáy
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference ACD
Comment

Also colloquial term of address between males.

From Proto-West-Malayo-Polynesian *lakay 'grandfather'.

NEW Realization 14
Type Polysemy
Language Kaingang
Lexeme kɔΦa
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference IDS
Comment

CLICS-3

NEW Realization 15
Type Polysemy
Language Karelian
Lexeme ukko
Meaning 1 old man, grandfather
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Zajkov, Rugoeva 1999: 195
Comment
NEW Realization 16
Type Polysemy
Language Khanty
Lexeme 1 iki
Lexeme 2 iki
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Tereshkin 1981
Comment

восточно-хантыйский

iki (вах-васюганское наречие, сургутское наречие), ikə (салымский диалект) '1. старик; 2. мужчина; 3. муж, супруг' [Терешкин 1981: 52]

NEW Realization 17
Type Polysemy
Language Khinalug
Lexeme инхъаьрду
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference IDS
Comment

CLICS-3

NEW Realization 18
Type Polysemy
Language Khmer
Lexeme bɑɑŋ (បង)
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 you (addresing by wife to husband)
Reference SEAlang Khmer
Comment
NEW Realization 19
Type Polysemy
Language Koasati
Lexeme atcó:ba
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband (affectionate address)
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Geoffrey D. Kimball; Bel Abbey; Martha John; Ruth Poncho Koasati Dictionary 1994 22

NEW Realization 20
Type Polysemy
Language Latvian
Lexeme vecis
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband

viņa dēla rīcību pārstāstīja vēlreiz vecim


she told (her) son's actions once more to (her) husband

Reference English Wiktionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 21
Type Polysemy
Language Lezgian
Lexeme qːuža
Meaning 1 old man
Meaning 2 husband
Reference
Comment (LezgRus 191). The same in Tabassaran (ГЪУЖА), cf. (TabRus 114).
NEW Realization 22
Type Polysemy
Language Livvi-Karelian
Lexeme ukko
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Makarov 1990: 403
Comment
NEW Realization 23
Type Polysemy
Language Mairasi
Lexeme janavwer
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Peckham: 191
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 24
Type Derivation
Language Manda
Lexeme 1 buṛa
Lexeme 2 buṛa-buḍya
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband (in the compound form "husband and wife")"
Reference Ramakrishna Manda: 107
Comment compound
NEW Realization 25
Type Polysemy
Language Mandarin Chinese
Lexeme lǎogōng (老公)
Meaning 1 (literary) elderly person
Direction
Meaning 2 (colloquial) husband
Reference BKRS English Wiktionary
Comment

From lǎo 'old, aged' and gōng 'honorable'

NEW Realization 26
Type Polysemy
Language Masai
Lexeme mórùò
Meaning 1 old man, elder
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Doris L. Payne & Leonard Ole-Kotikash Maa(Maasai)-English Dictionary - Kenyan Southern Maasai, Samburu 2008

NEW Realization 27
Type Polysemy
Language Meadow Mari
Lexeme кугыза
Meaning 1 old man

 Шӱдӧ ияш шоҥго кугыза лийын колаш возам гынат, тиде касым нигунамат ом мондо.


(even when) I will become a hundred years old and lie down to die, but I will never forget this evening.

Direction
Meaning 2 husband

 – Кугызат кушто? Мом тынаре вучыкта? – авай деч Опанас йодо. (Остап Тыныш)

Тыште куваж ден кугызаже тӧр улыт. (Яныш Ялкайн)


- Where is the husband? Why he makes (us) wait so long? Opanas asked my mother.

Here (in the city) wife and husband are equal.

Reference Marij jylme muter
Comment
NEW Realization 28
Type Polysemy
Language Nanai
Lexeme мапа, мафа
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference SSTM: 1, 531
Comment
NEW Realization 29
Type Polysemy
Language Naxi
Lexeme ellomul
Meaning 1 old man (not considered polite)
Direction
Meaning 2 husband (used in a humorous way)
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

from ello 'parental grandfather'

孙堂茂 纳西汉英词典 Sun Tangmao (ed.) Naxi-Chinese-English dictionary homas M. Pinson. — 昆明:云南民族出版社,2012 116

ACCEPTED Realization 30
Type Polysemy
Language Nganasan
Lexeme бǝйкаʔа
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference NMS: 169 Kosterkina, Momde, Ždanova 2001: 29
Comment
NEW Realization 31
Type Polysemy
Language Orok
Lexeme мапа
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference SSTM: 1, 531
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 32
Type Polysemy
Language Pengo
Lexeme ḍokra
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Burrow-Bhattacharya's Pengo: 210
Comment
NEW Realization 33
Type Polysemy
Language Polish
Lexeme stary
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 (slang, derogatory) husband

Babka niespodziewanie roześmiała się. - Oj ty, stary, stary! - powiedziała do męża, kiwając pobłażliwie głową, po czym zwróciła się do Julka [...]. NKJP: Irena Jurgielewiczowa: Ten obcy, 1990

- Cyrkowiec to on był niezły, fakt. W precel się zwijał. Ja nawet w noc poślubną takich figur nie robiłam z moim starym! NKJP: Piotr Siemion: Finimondo: komedia romantyczna, 2004

Reference WSJP
Comment
NEW Realization 34
Type Polysemy
Language Rennellese
Lexeme matuʔa
Meaning 1 to be or grow old; to be or become mature
Direction
Meaning 2 husband, family head
Reference ACD
Comment

Also 'landholder, worshipper, especially the priest-chief'

NEW Realization 35
Type Borrowing
Language 1 Russian
Language 2 Udmurt
Lexeme старик
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 (dialect) husband

 мынам старике со


This is my husband

Reference Kirillova 2008
Comment
NEW Realization 36
Type Polysemy
Language Russian
Lexeme старик
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 (dialect) husband
Reference ESSJa: 41, 69
Comment
NEW Realization 37
Type Polysemy
Language Selkup
Lexeme ара
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Consolidated Selkup
Comment Narym dialect
NEW Realization 38
Type Polysemy
Language Spanish
Lexeme viejo
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 (Mexico) a male sexual companion or partner, occasional or stable; husband
Reference English Wiktionary
Comment
NEW Realization 39
Type Polysemy
Language Swedish
Lexeme gubbe
Meaning 1 (informal, sometimes derogatory) an older or elderly man

Gå rakt fram, mot gubbarna där borta.


Go straight ahead, towards those old men over there.

Direction
Meaning 2 (informal) one's husband

Jag gick till teatern med min gubbe.


I went to the theatre with my husband.

Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
NEW Realization 40
Type Polysemy
Language Tabassaran
Lexeme гъужа
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference TabRus: 114
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 41
Type Derivation
Language Tamil
Lexeme 1 kiẓavan̠
Lexeme 2 maṉaikkiẓavaṉ
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband "Husband, as master of the house", literary "the old man of the house"
Reference Tamil lexicon: 3318
Comment Also: posssibly, the same semantic shift is realised in polysemy "kiẓavaṉ" (Tamil lexicon, 936): there are meanings (1) 'owner, lord, husband' and (2) 'old man'. However, the dictionary considers it as homonymy.
NEW Realization 42
Type Polysemy
Language Tatar
Lexeme карт
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband (addressing older women to their husbands)
Reference Asylgaraev, Ganiev et al. (eds.) 2007: 1, 540
Comment
NEW Realization 43
Type Derivation
Language Tikopia
Lexeme 1 maatua
Lexeme 2 matuua
Meaning 1 aged; elder, elders
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference POLLEX-Online
Comment
NEW Realization 44
Type Polysemy
Language Tongan
Lexeme motuʔa
Meaning 1 old or elderly person, or elder; male person of any age (even a baby) when one is speaking in a derogatory way
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference ACD
Comment

derogatory synonym for mali 'husband'

NEW Realization 45
Type Polysemy
Language Tucano
Lexeme bɨkɨ
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Ramirez 2019: 19-20
Comment

bɨkɨó 'wife'

ACCEPTED Realization 46
Type Polysemy
Language Tuvan
Lexeme ашак
Meaning 1 an aged man, an old man
Meaning 2 husband ашак-кадай болчур
to be married
Reference
Comment
NEW Realization 47
Type Polysemy
Language Tuvan
Lexeme ашак
Meaning 1 elderly man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
NEW Realization 48
Type Polysemy
Language Tver Karelian
Lexeme ukko
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Punžina 1994: 318
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 49
Type Polysemy
Language Udihe
Lexeme мафа
Meaning 1 old man
Meaning 2 husband
Reference
Comment Кормушин 1998, 259
NEW Realization 50
Type Polysemy
Language Ulchi
Lexeme мапа
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference SSTM: 1, 531
Comment
NEW Realization 51
Type Polysemy
Language Vaeakau-Taumako (Pileni)
Lexeme matua
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference POLLEX-Online
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 52
Type Polysemy
Language Yakut
Lexeme 1 оҕонньор
Lexeme 2 оҕонньорум
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference Slepcov 1972 SakhaTyla.Ru
Comment possesive form 1 sg. 'my old man'
NEW Realization 53
Type Polysemy
Language Yir Yoront
Lexeme morr-karntl
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Barry Alpher Yir-Yoront Lexicon. Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian Language. 1991. 156

ACCEPTED Realization 54
Type Cognates
Language 1 Yugh
Language 2 Kott
Lexeme 1 xa-čit
Lexeme 2 hat-kīt
Meaning 1 old man
Direction
Meaning 2 husband
Reference
Comment Старостин 1995, 214