big
→
numerous
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | rbh (qal-stem) | |
| meaning 1 | to be many, to multiply | wə-hā-ʕōp yireb bā-ʔāreṣ (Gen. 1:22) And the birds became numerous on the earth. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to be big | wa-ttēreb mim-maśʔot kullām (Gen. 43:34) And it was bigger than the tribute of all of them. |
| reference | HALOT: 1097 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Meadow Mari | |
| lexeme | кугу | |
| meaning 1 | numerous | кугу тӱшка, кугу погынымаш, кугу контингент. Арсланыште Микайлан ешыже кугуак огыл. (Алексей Эрыкан) large group, large gathering, numerous contingent. Mikayla's family in Arslan is not very big. |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | big | |
| reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | большой | |
| meaning 1 | big | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | numerous | большая семья |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||