equal
—
straight
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | تَعَدَّلَ taʕaddala | |
| Meaning 1 | it became, or was rendered, straight, or even | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to be equal | taʕaddalat ḳīmat-u l-matāʕ-i bi-kad̲ʕ the value of the commodity was equal to such a thing |
| Reference | Lane: 1973 | |
| Comment | V stem from عَدَلَ meaning 1) to be fair, righteous, just; 2) to decline, deviate. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | ravan | |
| Meaning 1 | equal | ravan geniju, ravan nuli equal to genius, equal to zero |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | straight | |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Internal cognates | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | равный | |
| Lexeme 2 | ровный | |
| Meaning 1 | equal | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | straight | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | раван (ravan) | |
| Meaning 1 | equal | бити раван оцу (с оцем) по храбрости to be equal to his father in courage |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | straight | у равној линији in a straight line |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1100 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tamil | |
| Lexeme | cemmai | |
| Meaning 1 | equality | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | straightness | |
| Reference | Fabricius Tamil: 437 | |
| Comment | It seems that this binary polysemy pattern is a part of different larger pattern, in comparison with other realizations of this shift: other meanings of this lexeme are: 1) excellence, dignity 2) redness, orange or gold colour. |
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