body
→
penis
3 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Amharic | |
Lexeme | säwǝnnät | |
Meaning 1 | person; personality; the human body, constitution (of a person) | yäsäwənnät maṭänkäriya ‘gymnastics, bodybuilding exercise(s)’ |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | penis (dialectal (Shoan) euphemism) | säwǝnnätun gälläṭä 'to reveal one's (true) personality; to uncover one's pudenda' |
Reference | ||
Comment | (K 568) |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Chaha | |
Lexeme 1 | mǝsyä | |
Lexeme 2 | yägämyä mǝsyä | |
Meaning 1 | body | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | penis of adult | |
Reference | ||
Comment | (LGur. I 80). |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Geez | |
Lexeme | nafəst | |
Meaning 1 | corpus [body] | kama nafəsta badn śəgāhu ‘his flesh is like the body of a cadaver’ (Rom 4:19) |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | genitalia, in specie viri [genitalia, especially penis] | ʔəlla maṭana nafəsta ʔadg nafəstomu ‘whose genitalia are like genitalia of an ass’ (Hez. 23:20) |
Reference | LLA: 708 | |
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