seat, chair
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boss
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | chair | |
| meaning 1 | item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (often with definite article) someone who presides over a meeting, board | Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions. |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | also written Chair Clipping of chairperson. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kemant | |
| lexeme 1 | wambar | |
| lexeme 2 | wambar (or wämbär) | |
| meaning 1 | seat, chair | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | paramount chief | |
| reference | ||
| comment | (Conti Rossini 1912:265; Gamst 2007:381); borrowed from Amharic wämbär 'chair' (K 1035). | |