cloud sky 29 realizations
NEW Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Adang
Lexeme laːb
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference LexiRumah 3.0.0
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NEW Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Alorese
Lexeme kɔfa
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference LexiRumah 3.0.0
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NEW Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Bezhta
Lexeme гьас
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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NEW Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Biritai
Lexeme ai^
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference TransNewGuinea.org
Comment

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ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Chuvash
Lexeme пӗлӗт
Meaning 1 cloud

хĕвел пĕлĕт хыçне пулчĕ


The sun hid behind a cloud

Direction
Meaning 2 sky

пĕлĕтре планер ярăнса пырать


A glider flies in the sky

Reference Электронлă сăмахсар
Comment

from Proto-Turkic *bulït 'cloud' ESTJa 2, 262-264

NEW Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Dedua
Lexeme kurumeŋ
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference TransNewGuinea.org
Comment

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NEW Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Eastern Wichí
Lexeme pe'leʔ
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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NEW Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Gela (Nggela)
Lexeme parakɔ
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Tryon, Hackman 1983
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NEW Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Ginukh
Lexeme ас
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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NEW Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Hunzib
Lexeme гьас
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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NEW Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Inkhokvari
Lexeme ас
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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NEW Realization 12
Type Polysemy
Language Khwarshi
Lexeme ас
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
Comment

Kwantlada dialect

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ACCEPTED Realization 13
Type Semantic evolution
Language Latvian
Lexeme debess
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 (archaic) sky
Reference English Wiktionary Derksen 2008: 347-348
Comment

Although the singular forms still exist, the plural forms (Nom. Pl. debesis, etc.) are much more frequently used in all senses.

Cognates include Lithuanian debesis 'sky', Latgalian debess 'sky', Proto-Slavic *nebò 'sky, heaven' and Ancient Greek νέφος 'cloud'.

ACCEPTED Realization 14
Type Polysemy
Language Middle English
Lexeme ski, skie, sky
Meaning 1 cloud


Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference DDO OED
Comment

Viddle English 'firmament, heavens, sky; cloud; cloud of mist or vapour; fog, mist; (astrology) certain configuration of the heavens; (astronomy) sphere of the celestial realm; (physiology) cloudiness, smoky residue (for example, in urine)' from Old Norse ský 'cloud', from Proto-Germanic *skiwją 'cloud; sky', from *skiwô 'cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky' (whence Old English sċēo 'cloud' and Middle English skew 'air; sky; (rare) cloud'), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- 'to cover; to conceal, hide'. Compare Danish sky 'cloud' (grå skyer 'grey clouds')

NEW Realization 15
Type Polysemy
Language Ngoreme (Ngurimi)
Lexeme risaro
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Nurse, Philippson 1975
Comment

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ACCEPTED Realization 16
Type Polysemy
Language Old English
Lexeme wolcn
Meaning 1 cloud

Næs þā nān wolcn on þǣre lyfte.


There wasn't a cloud in the sky.

Direction
Meaning 2 (in the plural) the sky, the heavens

Þā wolcnu sweartodon.


The skies darkened.

Reference OED MED
Comment

Modern English welkin 'sky',  Middle English welken, welkne, wolkne 'cloud; sky; heavens; (astronomy) cosmic elementary, planetary, or celestial sphere; all the spheres beyond the elementary region, including the primum mobile', from Proto-West Germanic *wolkn 'cloud' (Anglo-Frisian Germanic), from Proto-Germanic *wulkaną 'cloud' [and other forms], from Proto-Indo-European *welg- 'damp; wet'.

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 127

NEW Realization 17
Type Polysemy
Language Rapanui
Lexeme raŋi
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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NEW Realization 18
Type Polysemy
Language Siraya
Lexeme vullum
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Carling (ed.) 2017
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NEW Realization 19
Type Polysemy
Language Sizaki (Shashi)
Lexeme erisaru
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Nurse, Philippson 1975
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NEW Realization 20
Type Polysemy
Language Suena
Lexeme utu
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference TransNewGuinea.org
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NEW Realization 21
Type Polysemy
Language Tangsa
Lexeme rong
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Marrison 1967
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NEW Realization 22
Type Polysemy
Language Tlingit
Lexeme góosˀ
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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NEW Realization 23
Type Polysemy
Language Tsez
Lexeme ас
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference IDS
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Mokok dialect

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NEW Realization 24
Type Polysemy
Language Waskia
Lexeme taiti
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference TransNewGuinea.org
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NEW Realization 25
Type Polysemy
Language Wathawurrung
Lexeme wurr-wurr
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Bowern, Atkinson 2012
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NEW Realization 26
Type Polysemy
Language Wayuu (Guajiro)
Lexeme sirúma
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Huber, Reed 1992
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NEW Realization 27
Type Polysemy
Language Wetarese (Ili'uun)
Lexeme nata
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference LexiRumah 3.0.0
Comment

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NEW Realization 28
Type Polysemy
Language Yaqay
Lexeme teˈmɛʔ
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference TransNewGuinea.org
Comment

Wairu dialect

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NEW Realization 29
Type Polysemy
Language Yorta Yorta
Lexeme yurratha
Meaning 1 cloud
Direction
Meaning 2 sky
Reference Bowern, Atkinson 2012
Comment

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