moon mad, insane 9 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Derivation
Language Ancient Greek
Lexeme 1 σελήνη
Lexeme 2 σεληνιάζομαι
Meaning 1 moon
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Meaning 2 to be a sleepwalker; to have attacks or to be mentally ill
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NEW Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Bikol
Lexeme 1 búlan
Lexeme 2 bu-bulán-on
Meaning 1 moon
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Meaning 2 loony; also describing someone affected by periods of strange and unaccountable actions
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NEW Realization 3
Type Derivation
Language English
Lexeme 1 moon
Lexeme 2 moony
Meaning 1 moon
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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)
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ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Derivation
Language Geez
Lexeme 1 warḫ
Lexeme 2 warḫāwi
Meaning 1 moon
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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)
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Comment LLA 898-99. 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
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ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Derivation
Language Latin
Lexeme 1 luna
Lexeme 2 lunaticus
Meaning 1 moon
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Meaning 2 sleep-walker, epileptic, madman
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NEW Realization 7
Type Derivation
Language Makassarese
Lexeme 1 bulaŋ
Lexeme 2 bulaŋ-bulaŋ-aŋ
Meaning 1 moon
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Meaning 2 be under the influence of the moon, of someone who is moody or capricious
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NEW Realization 8
Type Derivation
Language Pamona (Bare’e)
Lexeme 1 wula
Lexeme 2 mate wula
Meaning 1 moon
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Meaning 2 insane, psychotic
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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
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Meaning 2 lunatic
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