little, small
→
minute
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | |
| Lexeme | daqīqā (ܕܲܩܝܼܩܵܐ) | |
| Meaning 1 | little, small | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | minute | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | The sense of 'minute' as a measure of time is a semantic loan from Arabic |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme 1 | daḳīḳ- | |
| Lexeme 2 | daḳīḳat- | |
| Meaning 1 | 'slender, thin, small, minute, fine' | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | 'minute (of time)' | |
| Reference | Lane: 896 | |
| Comment | A Latin calque. Meaning A is not just SMALL, but TINY, ITTY-BITTY, THIN etc. Like in the Latin minutus as it seems. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Latin | |
| Language 2 | Medieval Latin | |
| Lexeme | minuta | |
| Meaning 1 | small (adj. fem.) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | minute | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | From pars minuta prima 'first small part (of a hour)'. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Modern Hebrew | |
| Lexeme 1 | dak (דַּק) | |
| Lexeme 2 | daká (דַּקָּה) | |
| Meaning 1 | thin; skinny, lean; small, diminutive | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | minute | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | daká is feminine singular indefinite of dak |
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