The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2
2378		stone (piece of rock)	→	bullet	Open
2379		arrow	→	bullet	Open
2377		sphere; ball	→	bullet	Open

Comment
Метафорически - и в русском: например, "Я падаю, грудью хватая свинец" (В. Высоцкий)

NEW Realization 1
type		Polysemy
language		Batsbi
lexeme		ṭq̣iv
meaning 1	lead, plumbum
direction	—
meaning 2	bullet
reference		Bertlani (ed.) 2013: 313
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type		Cognates
language 1		Bikol
language 2		Amis
lexeme 1		timgáʔ ~ tiŋgáʔ
lexeme 2		timra
meaning 1	lead, plumbum
direction	→
meaning 2	bullet
reference		ACD
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 3
type		Polysemy
language		Classical Arabic
lexeme		raṣāṣ-
meaning 1	'plomb' (свинец)
direction	→
meaning 2	'balle' (пуля, патрон)
reference
comment		BK I 868; Lane 1092 (Lane has only meaning A). In both meanings it has been borrowed into Swahili:risasi 'lead', 'bullet':piga risasi 'to shoot'; tia risasi 'to charge a gun' Polikanov.

ACCEPTED Realization 4
type		Polysemy
language		Even
lexeme		n`ur
meaning 1	lead
direction	←
meaning 2	bullet
reference
comment		The original meaning is that of arrow.

NEW Realization 5
type		Polysemy
language		Georgian
lexeme		ṭq̇via (ტყვია)
meaning 1	lead, plumbum
direction	→
meaning 2	bullet
reference		English Wiktionary Čikobava et al. 1964
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 6
type		Polysemy
language		Greenlandic Inuit
lexeme		aqerloq
meaning 1	lead, plumbum
direction	↔
meaning 2	bullet
reference		Katersat
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 7
type		Polysemy
language		Jarawara
lexeme		bara
meaning 1	lead
direction	—
meaning 2	bullet
reference
comment		JED 59. Borrowed from the Portuguese where the meaning of 'lead' has not been registered.

ACCEPTED Realization 8
type		Polysemy
language		Karo Batak
lexeme		timah
meaning 1	lead, plumbum
direction	→
meaning 2	bullet
reference		ACD
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 9
type		Polysemy
language		Modern Greek
lexeme		μολύβι
meaning 1	lead
direction	→
meaning 2	lead bullet
reference
comment		Хориков, Малев 524

ACCEPTED Realization 10
type		Polysemy
language		Spanish
lexeme		plomo
meaning 1	lead
direction	→
meaning 2	bullet
reference
comment		The word bala is more frequently used in the meaning of 'bullet'.

ACCEPTED Realization 11
type		Cognates
language 1		Tagalog
language 2		Puyuma
lexeme 1		tiŋgáʔ
lexeme 2		timra
meaning 1	lead, plumbum
direction	→
meaning 2	bullet
reference		ACD
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 12
type		Polysemy
language		Tigrinya
lexeme		ʕarär
meaning 1	lead, tin	ʔənda ʕarär lead works
direction	→
meaning 2	rifle ball, bullet, lead shot
reference
comment		KT 1843-44

ACCEPTED Realization 13
type		Polysemy
language		Turkish
lexeme		kurşun
meaning 1	lead	kurşun oksit lead oxide
direction	→
meaning 2	bullet	kurşun sıkmak to shoot, to pop a cap
reference
comment		The same in Bashk., Kyrg.