white
→
good
4 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 11584) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | white | |
| meaning 1 | white | a white dress |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | morally good | He said that he had never claimed to be whiter than white. |
| reference | Sweetser 1990: 8 | |
| comment | The meaning B is mostly expressed in the idiom whiter than white 'completely morally good' | |
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 52115) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| lexeme | ʔabyaḍu (أَبْيَضُ) | |
| meaning 1 | white | ʔabyaḍ-u nāṣiʕ-un snow-white |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | pure, innocent, sincere, honest, soilless | al-yad-u l-bayḍāʕ blessing, good deed, mercy |
| reference | Baranov: I 94-95 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 (ID: 23773) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | бео (beo) | |
| meaning 1 | white | бела марама, бели цвет white scarf, white flower |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | morally good | бели и црни богови, бела и црна ствар good and evil gods, good and bad things |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 77 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 2629) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | ṣaʕda | |
| meaning 1 | white | ṣaʕda ḥəbri white colour |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | excellent, good (times) | ṣaʕda kərämti kärämä to spend a good rainy season |
| reference | TED: 2608 | |
| comment | ||