beautiful
↔
good
31 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2232 | ugly, unpleasant | — | bad | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Bulgarian | |
| Lexeme | хубав | |
| Meaning 1 | pretty, lovely, fine-looking, beautiful | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | Хубаво време. |
| Reference | RNBE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ḥasan- | |
| Meaning 1 | 'beautiful, comely'' | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'good, goodly' | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Lane571; cf. also ḥusn- 'goodness, goodliness; beauty, comeliness' (ibid. 570) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | lijep | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | lijep cvijet, lijepa žena, beautiful colour, beautiful woman |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | lijepa prilika good opportunity |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Czech | |
| Lexeme | pĕkný | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful [Павлович 1976: 361] | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Pol. piękny means only 'beautiful' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme | pæn | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | pænt tøj beautiful clothes |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | pæne karakterer good notes |
| Reference | DDO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | خوش xoš | |
| Meaning 1 | beauty, charm | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | Rubinčik 1970: 581 | |
| Comment | ПРС 285. Borrowing from Arabic | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | beau | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | une belle fleur a beautiful flower |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | satisfactory | Nous sommes heureux de ce beau résultat; Il fait beau We are happy with these good results; The weather is fine |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hill Mari | |
| Lexeme | цевер | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | |
| Reference | Savatkova 2008 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | szép | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | szép nő a beautiful woman |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | szép idő fine weather |
| Reference | Гальди 1974: 687 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | bello | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | bel tempo |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Karelian | |
| Lexeme 1 | hyväččäini | |
| Lexeme 2 | hyvä | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | hyväččäini tyttöni pretty girl |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | Zajkov, Rugoeva 1999: 34 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Komi | |
| Lexeme | мича | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | мича чужӧм beautiful face |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | barley shoots are good |
| Reference | Beznosikova et al. 2000 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Koryak | |
| Lexeme | митгʼайин | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | Žukova 1990: 57 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Koryak | |
| Lexeme | митг'атвик | |
| Meaning 1 | to become more beautiful, to grow prettier | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to clear up (about weather) | |
| Reference | Moll 1960 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lithuanian | |
| Lexeme | gražùs | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | gražus véidas beautiful face |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | gražus óras fine weather |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | LRŽ 202. The same in colloquial Russian speech in Lithuania under the influence of Lithuanian: красивая погода 'fine weather' (Авина Н. А. Региональные семантические особенности русского языка в Литве // Проблемы семантического анализа лексики. Тезисы докладов международной конференции. М., 2002. С. 4-5) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Meadow Mari | |
| Lexeme | мотор | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good (about weather) | |
| Reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | vakker | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | et vakkert landskap a beautiful landskape |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | en vakker handling a good action |
| Reference | BO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | pen | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | en pen hage a beautiful garden |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | pent vær fine weather |
| Reference | BO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Old East Slavic | |
| Language 2 | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | хорошии | |
| Lexeme 2 | horošij | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful, decorated | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 20 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | красивый (krasivyj) | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful, nice | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good (dialect) | Мы вчера красиво посидели тоже. We had a good party yesterday. |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Meaning B is represented in the Daghestanian Russian. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 21 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | хорошенький | |
| Meaning 1 | handsome, pretty | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | BTS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 22 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | леп (lep) | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | лепа девоjка, лепа као слика beautiful girl, as pretty as a picture |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | лепо решење, лепо посао good decision, good work |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1165 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 23 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | vacker | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | vackra vita tänder beautiful white teeth |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | med den nya metoden har man nått vackra resultat there have been achieved good results with the help of the new method |
| Reference | SAO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Tamil | |
| Language 2 | Telugu | |
| Lexeme 1 | *nal- | |
| Lexeme 2 | naluvu | |
| Meaning 1 | good | |
| Direction | ↔ | |
| Meaning 2 | beauty, ability; beautiful. | |
| Reference | STARLING | |
| Comment | also DEDR 318: https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/burrow_query.py?page=318. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 25 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tatar | |
| Lexeme | матур | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | Asylgaraev, Ganiev et al. (eds.) 2007: 2, 23 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 26 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tatar | |
| Lexeme | асыл | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | Баязитова 2009 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 27 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | ṣəbbuḳ̆ | |
| Meaning 1 | 'pretty, charming, beautiful, handsome' | ṣəbbuḳ̆ mälkəʕ 'handsomeness, beauty'; ʔazeb ṣəbbəḳ̌ti ʔəyya ḥafta gəna ḥəmmaḳ̌ ʔəyya ‘Azeb is pretty, but her sister is ugly’ |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'good, excellent, fine' | ṣəbbuḳ̆ kədan 'fine clothes' |
| Reference | TED: 2577 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 28 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | güzel | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | güzel kız beautiful girl |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | good | güzel hava good weather |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 370 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 29 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Udmurt | |
| Lexeme | чебер кариськыны | |
| Meaning 1 | to become more beautiful, to grow prettier | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to clear up (about weather) | |
| Reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 30 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Veps | |
| Lexeme | čoma | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | čoma ńiižńe nice girl |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | minā kóirad čomad i oružj I have good dogs and a good gun |
| Reference | Zajceva, Mullonen 1972: 61 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 31 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Western Armenian | |
| Lexeme | ałvor (աղվոր) | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good | |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | From Middle Armenian ałuor (աղուոր), from Old Armenian ału (աղու) 'soft, sweet, agreeable, affable', 'delicious, tender, delicate', '(figuratively) knavish, dodge, pretending to be nice' |
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