river
—
ravine
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | falag | |
| Meaning 1 | river | rəʔikəwwā tətḥaḍḍab bafalaga ṭibron ‘I saw her taking bath in the river of Tiber’ (d’Abbadie 1860:1) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | valley | waḥalifəya ʔəmwəʔətu falag baṣāḥku wəsta marḥəb ‘and having passed this valley I reached a plain’ (d’Abbadie 1860:1) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGz. 159) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | дэрэ | |
| Meaning 1 | river | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | ravine, gorge | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Из перс. (?) дарья (ср. Сыр-Дарья) | |
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khamnigan Mongol | |
| Lexeme | ɢol | |
| Meaning 1 | river | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | river valley | Ononoi ɢol the valley of Onon river |
| Reference | Damdinov, Sundueva 2015: 103 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | sənčəro | |
| Meaning 1 | 'brooklet, rivulet, intermittent small stream' | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'gorge, ravine, valley' | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | KT 741 | |
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | dere | |
| Meaning 1 | non-perennial river, spruit. A river that dries up in summer. | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | ravine, valley | |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 220 | |
| Comment | ||