head
→
beginning
12 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Abaza | |
Lexeme | qa | |
Meaning 1 | head | wram qa begging of a street |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | |
Reference | Tugov 1967 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
Lexeme | roš | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | roš haśśānā 'the beginning of the year' |
Reference | ||
Comment | (HALOT 1165-66). Cf. also rēšīt 'beginning, what comes first, starting point' (HALOT 1169). |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | raʔs- | |
Meaning 1 | head | rumiya fulān-un minhu fī r-raʔs-i ‘such a one was shot by him in the head’ |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | raʔs-u š-šahr-i 'the beginning of the month'; 1) 'in the beginning of the month'; 2) 'repeat me your speech from the beginning' [Lane 995] |
Reference | ||
Comment | (Lane 995; BK I 793) |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Lezgian | |
Lexeme | q’il | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | beginning, edge, side | куьчед кьил head of the street |
Reference | ||
Comment | (LezgRus 203-204) |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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Type | Cognates | |
Language 1 | Middle Mongolian | |
Language 2 | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
Lexeme 1 | xeki | |
Lexeme 2 | eh | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | |
Reference | ||
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | golova | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | у головы состава head end of the train |
Reference | ||
Comment |
NEW Realization 7 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Rutul | |
Lexeme 1 | кьул / q'ul | |
Lexeme 2 | кьуля / q'ulja | |
Meaning 1 | head | изды кьул ведере а / izdɨ q'ul wedere a I have a headache |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | at the beginning | хабарахда сифте кьуля хъадацус рахьаIт йиъий / χabaraχda sifte q'ulja qadacus raxaˤt jiʔij at the beggining, it was easy to listen to the narrative |
Reference | Ismailova 2011: 66 Ismailova 2011: 284 Alisultanov, Sulejmanova 2019: 222 | |
Comment | In (Alisultanov, Sulejmanova 2019) the form for 'at the beginning' is кьуле (q'ule), not кьуля (q'ulja) |
ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Sanskrit | |
Lexeme | mūrdhán | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | commencement , beginning | |
Reference | MW | |
Comment | MW 826 |
NEW Realization 9 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Thai | |
Lexeme | ˈhǔa | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | beginning, initial period, first stage of something | |
Reference | Morev 1964: 831 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tibetan | |
Lexeme | dbu | |
Meaning 1 | head (respect.) | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Рерих VI, 278. |
ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Turkish | |
Lexeme | baş | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | ayın başında in the beginning of the month |
Reference | ||
Comment | ТуРС 97. |
ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tuvan | |
Lexeme | баш | |
Meaning 1 | head | |
Meaning 2 | beginning | помну бажындан ужунга yндyр номчудум я has read a book |
Reference | ||
Comment | The same in Karaim (КРПС 104) |
Ср. перс. рас голова; начало < араб.