bone marrow
→
core (of plant)
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | Chechen | |
| lexeme | ṭum | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | core, centre | |
| reference | Matsiyev, 1961: 428 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | مُخّ | |
| meaning 1 | marrow (of a bone) | مخّخ العَظْمَ He extracted the marrow from the bone. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | the purest, choicest part | هٰؤُلَآءُ مُخُّ القَوْمِ These are the best of the people. |
| reference | Lane: 2692 | |
| comment | The shift is motivated by the cooking practice in Arabic countries, and throughout the world: the bone marrow of animals is widely used by people as food (hence, brain -> middle). |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | moelle | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | core (of a plant) | |
| reference | NFRS | |
| comment | Also Portuguese medula, Italian midollo, Spanish médula | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Mark | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | core (of a plant) | |
| reference | BNRSOL | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | Ingush | |
| lexeme | ṭum | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | heart, core | |
| reference | Bekova et al. 2009: 674 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Khmer | |
| lexeme | mɨɲcie | |
| meaning 1 | marrow (of the bone) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | medulla (botany) | |
| reference | SEAlang Khmer | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Khmer | |
| lexeme | saa ~ saaraʔ | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | medula , pith , heartwood of a tree | |
| reference | SEAlang Khmer | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | suǐ (髓) | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | center, mid-point, core, heart | mù suǐ (木髓) the tree core |
| reference | BKRS: 11184 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Nanai | |
| lexeme | хоман | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | core (of tree) | |
| reference | Onenko 1989 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | tuétano | |
| meaning 1 | marrow | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | core (of a plant, tree) | |
| reference | Narumov 1995 | |
| comment | ||