mouth → edge, border 8 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Archi
lexeme sːob
meaning 1 mouth
meaning 2 tip, end (rope), bank
reference
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Avar
lexeme k'al
meaning 1 mouth
meaning 2 beginning, end (e.g. of a rope, field, ), part (e.g. front part of a military brigade)
reference
comment Cf. Karata эли ‘beginning, edge, tip (e.g. thread)’; Chamalal эл ‘beginning, tip, edge (e.g. rope, wire)’.
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Polysemy
language Geez
lexeme ʔaf
meaning 1 mouth wəsta ʔafa balāʕi 'in the mouth of the eater' (Nah. 3:12).
direction →
meaning 2 border, edge ʔafa malbasəya (Job 30:18); ba-Ɂafa sayf (Dillmann 809)

the edge of my clothes; at the point of the sword
reference CDG: 8 LLA: 808-09
comment

Cf. Amh. af 'mouth; rim (of a glass or a pot)' (AED 1346).
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Hausa
lexeme baki
meaning 1 mouth
meaning 2 edge, border
reference
comment Also when expressing the meaning of ‘soon’ as “on the verge" (Khausa 31).
ACCEPTED Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Hausa
lexeme baki
meaning 1 mouth
meaning 2 knife blade
reference
comment Possibly related to the shift to 'tip, edge'.
NEW Realization 6
type Polysemy
language Syriac
lexeme pūmā
meaning 1 mouth
direction →
meaning 2 opening; flesh (of fruit); sharp edge (of sword)
reference LSyr.: 577 SL: 1165
comment
NEW Realization 7
type Polysemy
language Telugu
lexeme vāyi (వాయి)
meaning 1 mouth
direction →
meaning 2 edge of any cutting instrument
reference Brown Telugu dictionary: 1161
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 8
type Polysemy
language Turkish
lexeme ağız
meaning 1 mouth
meaning 2 blade (knife); start (road) bıçağın ağızı
knife blade
reference
comment ТуРС 30.

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