elbow
↔
corner
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Bagvalal | |
| lexeme | sːunč'al | |
| meaning 1 | elbow | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | corner | |
| reference | ||
| comment | БРС 329 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | French | |
| language 2 | Latin | |
| lexeme 1 | coude | |
| lexeme 2 | cubitus | |
| meaning 1 | elbow | se soulever sur un coude to rise oneself on one’s elbow |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | reclined | |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | kʷərnaʕ | |
| meaning 1 | elbow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | street corner; angle (direction); side (direction) | kʷərnaʕ täṯäwyä ‘to round a corner, to turn a corner’ ; ʔəmni kʷərnaʕ ‘cornerstone’ ; bälliḥ kʷərnaʕ ‘salient (neol)’ |
| reference | ||
| comment | (KT 1599) | |