river
→
ravine
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | falag | |
| meaning 1 | river | rəʔikəwwā tətḥaḍḍab bafalaga ṭibron (d’Abbadie 1860:1) I saw her taking bath in the river of Tiber. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | valley | waḥalifəya ʔəmwəʔətu falag baṣāḥku wəsta marḥəb (d’Abbadie 1860:1) And having passed this valley I reached a plain. |
| reference | CDG: 159 | |
| comment | cf. Tgr. falag, pl. ʔaflāg 'gorge, ravine' (WTS 653). |
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| 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 | TED: 741 | |
| comment | ||
| 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 | ||