freedom
→
territorial entity
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | liberty | |
| meaning 1 | freedom | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e. an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands). It later became a unit of local government administration | Liberty of Norton Folgate |
| reference | Tomlins, Raithby 1814: 5, 427 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language | Old East Slavic | |
| lexeme 1 | свобода | |
| lexeme 2 | слобода | |
| meaning 1 | freedom | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | village, settlement | |
| reference | Fasmer 1986: 3, 672-673 | |
| comment | Слобода is recorded since the end of the XIV century. originally "settlement of free farmers" | |