bird
→
happiness, luck
2 realizations
FAMILY: Afro-Asiatic
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 85) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Classical Arabic | |
| language 2 | Wolane | |
| lexeme 1 | ṭayr- | |
| lexeme 2 | ṭur | |
| meaning 1 | bird | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | good fortune, luck | |
| reference | BK: II 129 Lane: 1904 EDG: 630 | |
| comment | Via the meaning 'to tell fortune (by observing the flight of birds)', see SED II No. 235. Both meanings are found also in some other Semitic cognates, see EDG 630. But in the Arabic itself the root *ṭyr is not connected with good fortune. For example, verb taṭayyara (تَطَيَّرَ) derivative V-stem from I-stem ṭāra 'to fly' (> ṭāʔir- 'bird') means 'to see as a bad omen', and word ṭūrat- is ‘bad augury’ [BK II 129]. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 2804) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | ʕuf, ʕof, ʕif | |
| meaning 1 | bird, fowl | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | luck, good fortune | |
| reference | TED: 1949 | |
| comment | For etymology see SED II No. 48. | |