shadow
→
phantom, ghost
11 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 | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | árny | |
| meaning 1 | shadow | az ember árnya, a fa árnya, a felhő árnya the shadow of the man, the shadow of the tree, the shadow of the cloud |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | phantom, ghost | a holtak árnyai ghosts of the dead |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Indonesian | |
| lexeme | bayang | |
| meaning 1 | shadow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | phantom, ghost | |
| reference | Большой индонезийско-русский словарь: I, 95 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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). | |
| NEW Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | сенка (senka) | |
| meaning 1 | shadow | сенка човека, сенка дрвета shadow of man, shadow of tree |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | phantom, ghost | Redovi izbezumljenih stanara prolažahu kraj njega kao senke mrtvih, sa sivim znacima na čelima. Lines of distraught tenants passed him like the ghosts of the dead, with gray marks on their foreheads. |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1214 CLARIN.SI | |
| comment | The same polysemy has the word сен (sen). |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tabassaran | |
| lexeme | ʁarantu | |
| meaning 1 | shadow | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | ghost | |
| reference | ||
| comment | (TabRus 107) | |