word
→
thing
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1991 | word | — | matter, affair | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | dābār | |
| meaning 1 | word | dābār ṭōb (Ps 45:2) a good word |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | matter; thing, something | kol dābār ʔăšer bāʔāreṣ (Ju 18:10) each thing which is on earth |
| reference | HALOT: 211 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Chaha | |
| lexeme | zänga | |
| meaning 1 | public discussion; language | yä-с̌äha məs y-inor məs yəzräk’-ən zänga däpitä ebäda A man of Chaha does not completely understand the language of Inor. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | thing | nəḳḳar yətbetärwä zänga enä There is not a thing by which they differ very much. |
| reference | EDG I: 134-135 Leslau 1983: 25-26 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | nagar | |
| meaning 1 | speech, talk, word, language | ʔi-tāwṣəʔ nagara za-samāʕka (Sirach 19:10) Do not let go out the word that you have heard. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | thing, affair | bonu nagar za-yəssaʔano la-ʔəgziʔabəḥer (Gen. 18:14) Is there a thing which is impossible for God? |
| reference | CDG: 392 LLA: 690-691 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | ḳāl | |
| meaning 1 | word, word, saying, speech | yəsamməʕā ḳāləya (Joh. 10:16) they hear my word |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | thing | kʷəllu ḳāl za-tafaṭra wəsta mədr (Ju 18:10) every thing which has been created on earth |
| reference | CDG: 426 LLA: 450-451 | |
| comment | The meaning 'word' is original (cf. LLA). The same polysemy in the cognates in practically all Gurage languages (EDG 474). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | rzecz | |
| meaning 1 | speech, conversation | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | thing | |
| reference | Sakhno 2009 | |
| comment | Cf. Slovene reč "thing" | |