belly
→
middle, centre
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1946 | middle, centre | → | back (body part) | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Albanian | |
| lexeme | bark | |
| meaning 1 | belly | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (rare) middle | bark(-u) i javës middle of the week |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Dialects od Middle Albania (Shqipёria e Mesme). From Maxim Makartsev | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | fù (腹) | |
| meaning 1 | belly, abdomen, abdominal cavity | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | interior, inside; middle | jiāng fù (江腹) the middle of the river |
| reference | BKRS: 10747 | |
| comment | Compare fùdì (腹地) 'hinderland'. Etymology fù (腹) from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-puːk 'belly; vitals; hollow object; cave'; cognate with Mandarin Chinese fù (????) 'cave', Tibetan phugs 'innermost parts', Burmese buik 'belly; pregnancy', Chepang tuk 'belly; stomach', Proto-Bodo-Garo *bi(ʔ)-buk 'guts', Cogtse Situ tə-pōk 'belly', Brag-bar Situ tə-vōk 'belly', Proto-Tani *puk 'heart' (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | käbdi | |
| meaning 1 | stomach, belly, tummy, liver, abdomen | käbdi məllaš ṣäggäbä; käbdi mälʔe to eat one’s fill; to have a full stomach |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | center, middle part | käbdi ʕad the center of the village |
| reference | TED: 1635 | |
| comment | ||