low (location)
→
happy
2 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 52346) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Ga | |
| lexeme 1 | nyɔ + tsui | |
| lexeme 2 | etsui eyɔ | |
| meaning 1 | to move a lowel level + heart | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | [his/her] heart has fallen = he is satisfied/appeased | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Charles Owiredu Tsui Heart Expressions in the Ga Bible |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 52345) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Mlabri | |
| lexeme 1 | jur + klol | |
| lexeme 2 | klol jur | |
| meaning 1 | to go down + heart | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to be happy, content, calm | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Wnuk, Ewelina and Ito, Yuma. "The heart’s downward path to happiness: cross-cultural diversity in spatial metaphors of affect" Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 32, no. 2, 2021, pp. 195-218. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0068 |
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