left (vs. right)
→
bad luck
6 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 48331) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | gra | |
| meaning 1 | left (direction) | wädä gra alä to go to the left, to be on the left |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | unfavorable, unlucky (affair, matter); difficult; improper, not customary | gra honä to be or become bad (food) (lit. to become left) |
| reference | AED: 1924 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 1562) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | σκαιός | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | unlucky, ill-omened, mischievous | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 2179) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ʔašʔamu (أَشْأَمُ) | |
| meaning 1 | left | ʔal-yad-u š-šuʔmā left hand |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | most unlucky, unfortunate, inauspicious | šaʔama ʕalay-him He drew upon them ill luck. |
| reference | Lane: 1400 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 10293) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | šimāl- (شِمَال) | |
| meaning 1 | left | ḏāta šimāl-ān to the left |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bad luck | ṭayr-u š-šimāl-in birds of ill luck |
| reference | Lane: 1601 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 43696) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | bal | |
| meaning 1 | left | Bal fül, bal kéz, bal láb Left ear, left hand, left foot |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | unlucky, having bad luck | Sorsa balra fordult. Balul ütött ki a dolog. His fate took a turn for the worse (literally: "His fate turned left"). Things went wrong. |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 (ID: 52021) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | laevus | |
| meaning 1 | left (vs. right) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bad luck | |
| reference | Dvoreckij 1976: 574 | |
| comment | ||
Chantraine, Pierre, "Les noms de la gauche en grec", Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 99.3 (1955) 374-377.