face
→
front part
27 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2905 | face | → | side (n.) | Open |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | 'Āre'āre | |
| Lexeme | mā-na | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | fit | |
| Meaning 1 | ‘face, features’ | fitu lay hazän yətayyal ‘his face is sad’ (Leslau 1973:430) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | ‘front, i.e. the front or fore part of s.th’ | fit bärr ‘front door’ |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (K 2305). For the same two meanings present in the Semitic cognates of Amh. fit see SED I 204 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | *pāne | |
| Meaning 1 | ‘лицо’ | wə-ʔim mippəʔat pānāw yimmārēṭ rōšō gibbēăh ṭāhūr hūʔ Lev. 13:41: ‘and if he loses hair from the temples of his face, his head is bald, (but) he is pure’ |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | front | Ez 41:14: wə-rōḥab pənē habbayit wə-haggizrā laḳḳādīm mēʔā ʔammā ‘and the width of the front part of the temple and of the yard from the eastern side is one hundred cubits’ |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | HALAT 886-87. In the Accadian cognate both meanings A and B are present. Cf. SED I No. 215 | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Anuta | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front end of an object | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Arosi | |
| Lexeme 1 | maa-(na) | |
| Lexeme 2 | maa | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front of a person or house | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | lice | |
| Meaning 1 | face | lijepo lice beautiful face |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front part | lice zgrade, lice tkanine front part of a building, front part of fabric |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Enggano | |
| Lexeme | e-baka | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front side | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Fijian | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front of a thing | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Futunan | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front of something, in front | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Gilbertese | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front, facade | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Komi | |
| Lexeme | бан | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front, face | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | КомиРС 34 | |
| NEW Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Kosraean | |
| Lexeme 1 | mʌta | |
| Lexeme 2 | mʌtʌ-n | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front of | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kubachi | |
| Lexeme | бяй | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | facade of a house | |
| Reference | Magomedov, Saidov-Akkutta 2017: 120 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kwaio | |
| Lexeme | maa-na | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mbula | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Nukuoro | |
| Lexeme | mada | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front part of | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Palauan | |
| Lexeme | mad | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front; area/space (directly) in front of | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Sa'a (South Malaita, Apae'aa | |
| Lexeme | maa | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front of a house | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Somali | |
| Lexeme | weji(-ga) | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front part | |
| Reference | Alejnikov 2012: 338 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 20 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | uso | |
| Meaning 1 | face | uso kwa uso face to face |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front, face (building) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov | |
| NEW Realization 21 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Takuu | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 22 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tangga | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | the front of anything | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 23 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Thai | |
| Lexeme | ˈnâa | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front part | |
| Reference | Morev 1964: 805 SEAlang Thai | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tongan | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (as preposed noun) front (of house, etc.) | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 25 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Toʼabaita (Toqabaqita) | |
| Lexeme 1 | maa | |
| Lexeme 2 | front part of something | |
| Meaning 1 | maa | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front part of something | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 26 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Trukese (Chuukese) | |
| Lexeme | maas | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front (of a building) | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 27 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Wayan (Western Fijian) | |
| Lexeme | mata | |
| Meaning 1 | face | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | front, facing side, face of object with both front and back side | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||