land (vs. sea)
→
floor (vs. ceiling)
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Balinese | |
| lexeme | batar | |
| meaning 1 | ground, soil | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | floor of stone or earth | |
| reference | SEALang Balinese | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Cocopa | |
| lexeme | maṭ | |
| meaning 1 | land, ground, country, dirt, earth, (city) lot | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | floor | |
| reference | Zhivlov 2019 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | sol | |
| meaning 1 | soil, ground, earth | un sol fertile fertile soil |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | floor (vs. ceiling) | le sol d'une cave the floor in a cellar |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | Cf. also the word terre 'soil, ground, earth; land' and the expression par terre 'on the ground' or 'on the floor'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | mədr | |
| meaning 1 | land | wa-samayo ʔəgzəʔabəḥer la-yabs mədra wa-la-məʔlādātihu la-māy samayo bāḥra (Gen. 1:10) 'and God called the dry place land, and he called the gatherings of the water sea'; mədra kona (Jud. 5:18) 'it became earth' |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | floor, pavement | wa-yənaśśəʔ kāhən mareta ʔəm-wəsta dabtarā za-marṭul ʔəmənna mədru ‘and the priest takes earth from the tabernacle of the testimony, from its floor’ (Num. 5:17) |
| reference | ||
| comment | (LLA 217). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Boden | |
| meaning 1 | earth, soil | vom Schiff aus festen Boden betreten 'to come down from the ship to the firm ground' |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | floor | der Boxer musste zu Boden gehen 'the boxer fell upon the floor, the boxer was knocked down' |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||