beautiful ↔ good 34 realizations
NEW Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Botlikh
lexeme чӀиквар
meaning 1 beautiful

чӀиквар гигина, чӀиквар йеши


beautiful flower, beautiful girl
direction —
meaning 2 good

чӀиквар гӀамал


good character
reference Saidova, Abusov 2012: 411
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
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 3
type Polysemy
language Classical Arabic
lexeme ḥasan-
meaning 1 beautiful, comely
direction —
meaning 2 good, goodly
reference Lane: 571
comment Cf. also ḥusn- 'goodness, goodliness; beauty, comeliness' (ibid. 570)
ACCEPTED Realization 4
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 5
type Polysemy
language Czech
lexeme pĕkný
meaning 1 beautiful
direction —
meaning 2 good
reference Pavlovič 1976: 361
comment Pol. piękny means only 'beautiful'
ACCEPTED Realization 6
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 7
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 8
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 9
type Polysemy
language Hill Mari
lexeme цевер
meaning 1 beautiful
direction →
meaning 2 good (about weather)
reference Savatkova 2008
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10
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 11
type Polysemy
language Italian
lexeme bello
meaning 1 beautiful
direction →
meaning 2 good (about weather)

bel tempo
reference Vocabolario Treccani
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 12
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 13
type Polysemy
language Komi
lexeme мича
meaning 1 beautiful

мича чужӧм


beautiful face
direction →
meaning 2 good

 ид ӧзимыс мича 


barley shoots are good
reference Beznosikova et al. 2000
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 14
type Polysemy
language Koryak
lexeme митгʼайин
meaning 1 beautiful
direction →
meaning 2 good
reference Žukova 1990: 57
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 15
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 16
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 17
type Polysemy
language Meadow Mari
lexeme мотор
meaning 1 beautiful
direction →
meaning 2 good (about weather)
reference Marij jylme muter
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 18
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 19
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 20
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 21
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 22
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme хорошенький
meaning 1 handsome, pretty
direction ←
meaning 2 good
reference BTS
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 23
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
NEW Realization 24
type Polysemy
language Sumerian
lexeme sag₉, sa₆, ša₆ /sag/
meaning 1 to be beautiful
direction —
meaning 2 to be good
reference ePSD2
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 25
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 26
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 27
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 28
type Polysemy
language Tatar
lexeme асыл
meaning 1 beautiful
direction —
meaning 2 good
reference Баязитова 2009
comment
NEW Realization 29
type Polysemy
language Thai
lexeme dii (ดี)
meaning 1 beautiful
direction ←
meaning 2 good
reference SEAlang Thai
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 30
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 31
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 32
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 33
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 34
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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