freedom
→
territorial entity
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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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Meaning 2 | an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e. an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands).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 | ||
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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" |