moon
→
mad, insane
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 (Matth. 4:24) And they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. |
| reference | LLA: 898-99 | |
| comment | Possibly in Mat. 4:24 there is a Greek calque. | |
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Tagalog | |
| lexeme 1 | buán | |
| lexeme 2 | bu-buán-in | |
| meaning 1 | moon | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | lunatic | |
| reference | ACD | |
| comment | ||