bitter
↔
sour
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Syncretism | |
| language | Cook Islands Maori (Rarotongan) | |
| lexeme | kava | |
| meaning 1 | bitterness, to be bitter | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | sourness, to be sour or acid | |
| reference | ACD | |
| comment | The kava plant (Piper methysticum) is a product of human cultivation and refinement which probably began in Vanuatu and then spread into other parts of the Pacific after the arrival of Austronesian speakers. It’s distribution remains scattered except in Polynesian-Fiji, where it is almost universal. |
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| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Dagur | |
| lexeme | гасуун | |
| meaning 1 | bitter, salty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sour, spice (of a souce) | |
| reference | Тумурдэй Цыбенов Краткий дагурско-русский словарь: 40 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Koryak | |
| lexeme | нымйыӄэн | |
| meaning 1 | bitter, tasting like sea water | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | sour | |
| reference | ||
| comment | КорРС 78 | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Maori | |
| lexeme | kawa | |
| meaning 1 | bitter | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | sour | |
| reference | MD | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Moksha | |
| lexeme | шапама | |
| meaning 1 | bitter | шапама шапарякс; шапама чивге bitter radish; bitter viburnum |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | sour | шапама мичке sour curd |
| reference | Serebrennikov et al. 1993 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Nivkh | |
| lexeme | ваӄть | |
| meaning 1 | bitter | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | sour | |
| reference | Savel'eva, Taksami 1970: 46 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Nogai | |
| lexeme | ашы | |
| meaning 1 | bitter | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | sour | |
| reference | Baskakov 1963 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Soyot | |
| lexeme | ачығ~аҷығ | |
| meaning 1 | bitter | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | sour | |
| reference | Рассадин 2003 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tatar | |
| lexeme | ачы | |
| meaning 1 | bitter | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | sour | |
| reference | Asylgaraev, Ganiev et al. (eds.) 2007: 1, 150 | |
| comment | ||