mute, dumb
→
animal
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 6221 | mute, dumb | → | child (vs. adult) | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | أَبْهَم ʔabham- | |
| lexeme 2 | بَهِيمَة bahīmat- | |
| meaning 1 | unable to speak or incapable of speaking | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | animal | |
| reference | Lane: 260 BK: I 174 | |
| comment | Derivatives from verb أَبْهَمَ /ʔabhama/ (IV-stem) 'to be, make uncertain, complicated, suspicious'. Cf. also Hbr. בְהֵמָה /bəhēmā/ 'animals (in general)' (HALOT root 1089), Tna. bähamä ‘be dumb’, bəhəm bälä ‘speak in a low voice’ (TED I 1082), Tgr. bähama ‘be dumb’ (WTS 267), Gez. bəhma ‘be mute, be dumb, have difficulty speaking’ (CDG 89). Also, in Gez. and Hbr. bəhemot ‘hippopotamus’ (CDG 89, HALOT root 1090). | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Armenian | |
| lexeme | anasun (անասուն) | |
| meaning 1 | not endowed with the faculty of speaking | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | animal | Skscʻukʻ asel vasn aṙiwcun, or tʻagawor ē amenayn gazanacʻ kam tʻē amenayn isk anasnocʻ. (Սկսցուք ասել վասն առիւծուն, որ թագաւոր է ամենայն գազանաց կամ թէ ամենայն իսկ անասնոց) [Baroyaxōs [Physiologus] Earliest recension (TR).2.1, 5th century] Let us begin to speak of the lion, the king of all the beasts or all the animals. (translation by Gohar Muradyan) |
| reference | Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 Awetikʿean et al. 1836-37 | |
| comment | Muradyan, Gohar (2005), Physiologus: The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 6), Leuven – Paris – Dudley: Peeters, pages 87, 141 |
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| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Georgian | |
| lexeme 1 | uṭq̇vi (უტყვი) + ṗiri (პირი) | |
| lexeme 2 | ṗiruṭq̇vi (პირუტყვი) | |
| meaning 1 | dumb, not talking + mouth | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | livestock | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | necuvântător | |
| meaning 1 | non-speaking | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete) animal | |
| reference | DEX98 | |
| comment | ||
Russo 2012. Compare also “that do not speak” about domestic animals in the Hittite texts (Gamkrelidze, Ivanov 1984, 471-472).