hair → grass, herb 2 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Tigre
lexeme šabib
meaning 1 hair (of the head of men)
direction —
meaning 2 grass
reference WTS: 217
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Derivation
language Welsh
lexeme 1 gwellt
lexeme 2 gwallt
meaning 1 grass
direction —
meaning 2 hair
reference
comment

Buck 520. Also the Breton guelt (geot) 'grass', Old Irish folt 'hair', Cornish gwels 'grass', Cornish gols 'hair', Scottish Gaelic falt 'hair', Manx folt 'hair'.

Proto-Celtic *woltos 'hair (of a head)' Matasović 2009 427=428

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