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. | |