blue
—
black
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | nīla | |
| meaning 1 | blue | nīla niṟa paḻaiya kālattu poruṭkaḷ old-fashioned items of blue colour |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | black | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 2311 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | kaḷaṅkam | |
| meaning 1 | blue colour | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | black colour | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 811 | |
| comment | Other meanings: stain, fault, defect, mark, sign. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Yegha | |
| lexeme | ĩga[go] | |
| meaning 1 | blue | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | black | |
| reference | TransNewGuinea.org | |
| comment | Korafe Dialect. Also 'purple' | |