life
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age
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | ədme | |
| meaning 1 | life | ədme ləkkʷan all her life |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | age | ədmeh sənt näh How old are you? |
| reference | AED: 1301 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Karelian | |
| lexeme | ikä | |
| meaning 1 | life | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | age | |
| reference | Zajkov, Rugoeva 1999: 37 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| lexeme | عُمْر ʕumr- | |
| meaning 1 | life, duration of life | ذوات العُمْرين ḏāt-u l-ʕumrayni amphibian (lit. ‘owner of two lives’) |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | age | ʕumr-u-hu ʕišrūna sanatan He is twenty years old. |
| reference | Wehr: 753 Baranov | |
| comment | Cf. also Lane 2207 for Classical Arabic (ʕumr-, ʕamr- 'life; the age to which the life extends'). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Soqotri | |
| lexeme | ʕed | |
| meaning 1 | life | kése díʔyhe fáʕhɛr ʕad be-ʕed (CSOL I 8:55) He found his bull still alive. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | age | dihó ʕed … yeʔáraḥ ʕáśer ʕīhon (Müller 1905:146:5) My age was ten years. |
| reference | CSOL I: 485 | |
| comment | ||