mountain
→
monastery
4 realizations
FAMILY: Afro-Asiatic
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Coptic | |
| lexeme | toou | |
| meaning 1 | (Sahidic) mountain | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Sahidic) monastery | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Crum, Walter E. (1939), A Coptic Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 441 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Coptic | |
| lexeme | tau | |
| meaning 1 | (Akhmimic, Fayyumic) mountain | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Akhmimic, Fayyumic) monastery | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Crum, Walter E. (1939), A Coptic Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 441 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Coptic | |
| lexeme | tōou | |
| meaning 1 | (Bohairic) mountain | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Bohairic) monastery | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Černý, Jaroslav (1976), Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 199 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | dabr | |
| meaning 1 | mountain | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | convent, monastery | |
| reference | CDG: 121 | |
| comment | ||
This is the example of lexicalisation in the view of the fact that monasteries are usually built on high ground. In EthSem. languages the name of a monastery looks like dbr + temple name.