mute, dumb
→
animal
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
6221 | mute, dumb | → | child (young person) | Open |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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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). |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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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 and the Georgian p’irut’q’v-i (lit. ‘not-speaking-by-mouth’) 'cattle' (Gamkrelidze, Ivanov 1984, 471-472).