shadow
→
phantom, ghost
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | σκιά | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | ghost | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | shadow | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | to be afraid of one's (own) shadow to be afraid of one's (own) shadow |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | ghost | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | Schatten | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | kühler Schatten cool (refreshing) shadow |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | ghost | das Reich der Schatten Shadowland |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hill Mari | |
| Lexeme | ӹмӹлкӓ | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | phantom, ghost | |
| Reference | Savatkova 2008 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Indonesian | |
| Lexeme | bayang | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | phantom, ghost | |
| Reference | Большой индонезийско-русский словарь: I, 95 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Jarawara | |
| Lexeme | kanamori//kanamori | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow. | Me ye kanamori awareka He sees the shadows of their hands |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | spirit. | Faya inamati tokome, okobise The spirit left, and took back my uncle's spirit and brought it back. It arrived back |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | JED 108. In the dictionary, the first meaning is that of "ghost". | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | ten' | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | Чем выше Солнце, тем короче тени от деревьев. The higher is the sun, the shorter are tree shadows. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | ghost | Лишь по ночам, склонясь к долинам, ведя векам грядущим счет, тень Данта с профилем орлиным о Новой жизни мне поет. (А. Блок) Only in the night, bending over the valleys and counting the centuries to come, Dante's spirit with an aquiline profile sings me about New Life. (A. Blok) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Cf. "Тень отца Гамлета" (The Ghost of Hamlet's father). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | sombra | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | dar (hacer) sombra to throw a shadow |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | ghost | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Narumov 1995: 711 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tabassaran | |
| Lexeme | ʁarantu | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | ghost | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (TabRus 107) | |