moon
→
mad, insane
9 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Ancient Greek | |
lexeme 1 | σελήνη | |
lexeme 2 | σεληνιάζομαι | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | to be a sleepwalker; to have attacks or to be mentally ill | |
reference | ||
comment |
NEW Realization 2 | ||
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type | Polysemy | |
language | Bikol | |
lexeme 1 | búlan | |
lexeme 2 | bu-bulán-on | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | loony; also describing someone affected by periods of strange and unaccountable actions | |
reference | ACD | |
comment |
NEW Realization 3 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | English | |
lexeme 1 | moon | |
lexeme 2 | moony | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | (figuratively) absent-minded | Less violent, but no less eerie, was a teenage girl with Down’s syndrome who suddenly lolloped up to me on a sidewalk in Tacoma, Washington – I being then a morose and moony college student – and kissed me on the cheek. (2011 July 28, Terry Castle, “Do I like it?”, in London Review of Books, volume 33, number 15) |
reference | <personally collected data> | |
comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Geez | |
lexeme 1 | warḫ | |
lexeme 2 | warḫāwi | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | mad | wa-ʔamṣəʔu ḫabehu kʷəllu dəwəyān za-lalla ziʔahomu ḥəmāmomu wa-ṣəʕurāna wa-ʔəlla-hi ʔagānənt wa-warḫāwiyāna wa-ḳəṭḳuṭāna ‘and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments’ (Matth. 4:24) |
reference | ||
comment | LLA 898-99. Possibly in Mat. 4:24 there is a Greek calque |
NEW Realization 5 | ||
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type | Polysemy | |
language | Ilocano | |
lexeme 1 | búlan | |
lexeme 2 | bulan-bulán-en | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | lunatic, moonstruck | |
reference | ACD | |
comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Latin | |
lexeme 1 | luna | |
lexeme 2 | lunaticus | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | sleep-walker, epileptic, madman | |
reference | ||
comment |
NEW Realization 7 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Makassarese | |
lexeme 1 | bulaŋ | |
lexeme 2 | bulaŋ-bulaŋ-aŋ | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | be under the influence of the moon, of someone who is moody or capricious | |
reference | ACD | |
comment |
NEW Realization 8 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Pamona (Bare’e) | |
lexeme 1 | wula | |
lexeme 2 | mate wula | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | insane, psychotic | |
reference | ACD | |
comment | From Proto-Malay-Polynesian *bulan matay new moon, eclipse (lit. 'dead moon'): Toba Batak bulan mate 'new moon', Mongondow buḷan ko-patoy 'new moon', Sika wulaŋ mate 'eclipse', Kambera wula ka-meti 'dark moon, time of the new moon', Wetan wolan-n-mati 'dark moon, lunar eclipse'. |
NEW Realization 9 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Tagalog | |
lexeme 1 | buán | |
lexeme 2 | bu-buán-in | |
meaning 1 | moon | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | lunatic | |
reference | ACD | |
comment |