lord, master
→
father
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Ancient Greek | |
| language 2 | Apulia-Calabrian Greek | |
| lexeme 1 | κύριος | |
| lexeme 2 | ciuri | |
| meaning 1 | lord | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | father | |
| reference | Greco 1988: 26 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | eṉṉai | |
| meaning 1 | father | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | lord | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 550 | |
| comment | Old Tamil form, consisting of eṉ "my" + ai "father, lord". It was obligatory to designate the person in kinship terms by a kind of "prefixes" in Old Tamil. | |