mother
→
goddess
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
-
Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Gondi | |
| lexeme | avval | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | god | |
| reference | Gondi Multilingual: 4 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kannada | |
| lexeme | amma | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (village or local) goddess | |
| reference | Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary: 51 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Malayalam | |
| lexeme | amma | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | goddess | |
| reference | Gundert Malayalam dictionary: 43 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Marathi | |
| lexeme | ambā | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | A name of goddess Durga | |
| reference | Molesworth 1857: 36 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Oriya | |
| lexeme | mā-ā | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | goddess | |
| reference | Praharaj 1931-1940: 6402 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | mātirukai | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | god | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 3157 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Telugu | |
| lexeme 1 | amba | |
| lexeme 2 | amba (dial.) | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | goddess (a name of the Goddess Durga) | |
| reference | Gwynn Telugu Dictionary: 6 | |
| comment | borrowed from Sanskrit | |