low (location)
→
low (social)
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2275 | to lower, put down | → | to disgrace, dishonor | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | zəḳḳətäñña | |
| Meaning 1 | low | zəḳḳətäñña agär 'lowland ' (K 1639); |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | humble, inferior | mängäd mäṭräg zəḳḳətäñña səra näw 'street cleaning is a humble occupation'; |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | K 1639. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | šāpāl | |
| Meaning 1 | low | wə-yādəʕū kol-ʕăṣē ha-śśāde kī ʔănī yhwh hišpaltī ʕēş gābiăg higbahtī ʕēṣ šāpāl; Hez. 17:24: 'and all the trees learned that I, Yahwe, felled the high tree, made high the low tree'; |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | of little worth | ū-nəḳallotī ʕōd mizzōt wə-hāyītī šāpāl bə-ʕēyāy wə-ʕim-hāʔămāhōt ʔăšer ʔāmartə ʕimmām ʔikkābēdā Sam. II 6:22: 'and I will make myself despicable more than that and I will become worthless in my own eyes, but with the girls that you have spoken of, with them I will be respected' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (HALAT 1506-07). Cp. Accadian špl 'to be low; to become humble', IV 'to be humbled' (CAD 427):aššapil ina ṣābi ‘I became low among the people’; iššapil atmûa ‘my speech became humble’. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme 1 | tāḥtāy | |
| Lexeme 2 | təḥut | |
| Meaning 1 | lower, inferior (LGz. 572) {derivation} | kanfaru tāḥtāy yaʕabbi 'his lower lip is big' (LLA 554); |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | abused, inferior, rejected, ignoble, contemptible' (LGz. 572) | rāʔyu mənnun wa-təḥut ʔəm-kʷəllu sabʔ 'his appearance is more despicable and contemptible that of any person' (Jes. 53:3) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGz. 572). Morphologically,tāḥtāy is more complex than təḥut. However, it is more than probable that the meaning A was also originally present in təḥut, eventually ousted by the meaning B. From proto-Semitic *tḥt 'to be low' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | humilis | |
| Meaning 1 | low | arbor humilis 'a low tree' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | poor, ignoble | humiles et obscuri homines 'humble and obscure people'; |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | низкий (nizkij) | |
| Meaning 1 | low | низкие потолки low ceilings |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | contemptible | человек низкого происхождения a person of low origin |
| Reference | BAS | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | низак (nizak) | |
| Meaning 1 | low (location) | низак плафон low ceiling |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | low (social) | најнижи слој the lowest social class |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 834 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | alçak | |
| Meaning 1 | low | alçak dağ low mountain |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mean, despicable | alçağadam |
| Reference | Jusipova 2005 | |
| Comment | ||