head
→
chief, boss
31 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | glux (գլուխ) | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | leader, chief | |
| reference | Galstjan 1984: 160 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Arosi | |
| lexeme | bwau- | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chief, leader | |
| reference | ACD | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Batsbi | |
| lexeme | kortô | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | head, chief, leader, director, instructor | |
| reference | Bertlani (ed.) 2013: 388 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Buriat | |
| lexeme | толгой | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | head, master, leader | |
| reference | Čeremisov 1973: 425-426 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | raʔs | |
| meaning 1 | head | رُؤُوسُ كَبِيرَيْهِنَّ يَنْتَطِحَانِ (ruʔūs-u kabīr-ay-hinna yantaṭih-āni) The heads of the two great ones, or old ones, of them, smite each other with their horns. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | headman, chief, commander | رَأْسُ الكُفْرِ مِنْ قِبَلِ المَشْرِق (raʔs-u l-kufr-i min qibal-i l-mašriq-i) The head, or leader, of infidelity is from the direction of the place of sunrise (indicating that the head of error will come forth in the east). |
| reference | Lane: 996-997 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | glava | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | boss | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | head | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | head, boss | head of the department head of the department |
| reference | Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2008: 27 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Farsi | |
| lexeme | سر sar | |
| meaning 1 | head | سرش درد ميكند sar-aš dard mikonad he has a headache |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | head, boss | |
| reference | Rubinčik 1970: 2, 26 | |
| comment | В значении "старший, главный" употребляется в первой части в сложных словах | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | rəʔs | |
| meaning 1 | head | təḳbāʔ rəʔəsaka wataḫaḍab gaṣṣaka (Matth. 6:17) Let you anoint your head and wash your face! |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chief (leader) | rəʔsa kāhənāt the head of the priests |
| reference | CDG: 459 LLA: 294-295 | |
| comment | Cf. also Amh. ras (a title) (from Geez rəʔs). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | fej | |
| meaning 1 | head | fejbe ütni to hit somebody on the head |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | chief | az állam feje head of state |
| reference | Gal’di 1987: 214, 252-253 | |
| comment | Also adjective fő 'main, principal' and 'chief' (családfő 'head of the family', kormánifő 'head of the government') derivated from fej | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme | höfuð | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chief | |
| reference | Berkov et al. 1962 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme | ceann | |
| meaning 1 | head | Mo cheann My head |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | boss | ceann roinne head of department |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977: 204 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Khmer | |
| lexeme | kba:l | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | head, chief | |
| reference | Gorgoniev 1984: 89 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kildin Saami | |
| lexeme | вуэййв | |
| meaning 1 | head | выгклэ вӯйвэнѣ to shake one's head |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | chief, chairman | сыййт Совеhт вуэййв the chairman of the village council |
| reference | Kuruč 1985: 60 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Komi | |
| lexeme | юр | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | head, superior | овмöсса юр the master of the household |
| reference | Beznosikova et al. 2000: 775 | |
| comment | also юрлысь 'head' (юрлысь Коми Республикаса 'The Head of the Komi Republic') | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Latin | |
| language 2 | French | |
| lexeme 1 | caput | |
| lexeme 2 | chef | |
| meaning 1 | head | oscitat in campis caput a cervice revulsum the head torn off from its neck gapes on the ground (Ennius) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chief | chef d'entreprise director, leader of an enterprise |
| reference | Robert historique: 719-724 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lezgian | |
| lexeme | q’il | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | head, leader | колхоздин кьил the director of a collective farm |
| reference | LezgRus: 203-204 | |
| comment | The same in Tabassaran (КIУЛ), cf. (TabRus 214). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | shǒu | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | head, leader, chief, originator | |
| reference | BKRS: 2791 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 20 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Meadow Mari | |
| lexeme | вуй | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | boss | Еш кугу огыл гынат, ешлан вуй лияш логале. (Анатолий Айзенворт) Although the family is small, I had to become the head of the family. I stunned Sakar Kavrij, the leader of the deserters. |
| reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 21 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Nganasan | |
| lexeme 1 | ңойбуо | |
| lexeme 2 | ңойбу | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | chief | |
| reference | NMS: 2039, 2042 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 22 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | голова (golova) | |
| lexeme 2 | golova | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | chief | городской голова mayor |
| reference | MAS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 23 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Sanskrit | |
| lexeme | mūrdhán | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chief (applied to persons) | |
| reference | MW | |
| comment | MW 826 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | глава (glava) | |
| meaning 1 | head | Uvek me boli glava kad je ovakvo vreme. I always get a headache when the weather is like this. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | boss, leader | глава државе leader of state |
| reference | CLARIN.SI Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 194 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 25 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Soyot | |
| lexeme | баъш | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | boss, chief | |
| reference | Рассадин 2003 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 27 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Thai | |
| lexeme | ˈhǔa | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | boss | |
| reference | Morev 1964: 831 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 28 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tibetan | |
| lexeme | go (འགོ་) | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chief, leader | |
| reference | Dictionary Christian-Steinert | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 29 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Udmurt | |
| lexeme | йыр | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chief (n.) | |
| reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 31 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Yaqui (Hiaki) | |
| lexeme 1 | kova | |
| lexeme 2 | kovanao | |
| meaning 1 | head | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | governor, leader of a religious society | |
| reference | Dictionary Yaqui: 82-83 | |
| comment | ||