to defend to pasture, shepherd 9 realizations
NEW Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Chukchee
Lexeme гынритык
Meaning 1 to protect; to patronize
Direction
Meaning 2 to pasture, shepherd (reindeer)
Reference Moll, Inènlikèj 1957: 33
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Itelmen
Lexeme хчол̹эс
Meaning 1 to guard
Direction
Meaning 2 to shepherd (a herd)
Reference Volodin, Xalojmova 1989: 99
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Karaim
Lexeme кÿт-
Meaning 1 protect, guard, preserve
Direction
Meaning 2 to shepherd койун кÿт-
to shepherd sheep
Reference KRPS
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Mongolian (Khalkha)
Lexeme mana-
Meaning 1 to guard, to protect, to watch агуулах манах
to guard a warehouse
Meaning 2 to shepherd адуу манах
to guard a herd of horses at night
Reference
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Derivation
Language 1 Old Slavonic
Language 2 Russian
Lexeme 1 спасти (spasti)
Lexeme 2 пасти (pasti)
Meaning 1 to save; to cure, to heal up
Direction
Meaning 2 to pasture; to herd
Reference Cejtlin et al. 1994: 664
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Swahili
Lexeme chunga
Meaning 1 to protect, to take care; to guide, to instruct (spiritually);
Direction
Meaning 2 to shepherd, to herd (cattle)
Reference Polikanov
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Tibetan
Lexeme skyong-byed
Meaning 1 protector, patron
Direction
Meaning 2 shepherd
Reference Roerich: I, 210
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Tigre
Lexeme ʔatwaʕala
Meaning 1 ‘to protect’ korā təwāgər baʕalā la-zagā kəmsal ʔatwaʕala bā
‘she throws away her saddle, when the owner protects the village because of her’ (PPEA III, L. 664:9)
Direction
Meaning 2 ‘to make pasture’ bəkkur wa-falāyt banban ʔəgəl tatwəʕəllā
‘you let the first-born cows and the heifers pasture separately’ (PPEA III, L. 549:15)
Reference PPEA
Comment The source meaning is that of "to make pass a day", hence "to shepherd", and then it gives "to protect"
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Tigrinya
Lexeme ḥalläwä
Meaning 1 to guard, watch over ʔəgziʔabḥer yəḥalləwänna ‘May God protect us’ (KT 158);
Direction
Meaning 2 to take to pasture, put out to pasture, to watch over grazing cattle, to drive (a herd) ḥallaw käbti ‘herdsman, driver of a herd’
Reference KT: 158
Comment