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' | |