shadow theatre
→
cinema
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme 1 | yĭng 影 | |
| Lexeme 2 | diàn-yĭng 电影 | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow | pí yĭng xì shadow theatre |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cinema (lit. 'electrical shadows') | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | The cinema which in China first appeared in 1896 was initially thought to be the variant of the shadow play, that had been known in China since the epoch of Tang dynasty. Ткаченко 1999, 103 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Thai | |
| Lexeme | náng | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow show | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | movie | náng phūt sound film |
| Reference | Morev 1964: 804 | |
| Comment | The older meaning is that of "skin" | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Vietnamese | |
| Lexeme 1 | bóng | |
| Lexeme 2 | hát bóng | |
| Meaning 1 | shadow, shade | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cinema, movies, moving pictures | |
| Reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| Comment | hát 'to sing, give a theatrical performance' |
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Javanese white kelir 'screen used for shadow-play'