father
→
term of address with endearment
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kurux | |
| Lexeme | babas | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | term of address with endearment | |
| Reference | Oraon-English Dictionary: 45 | |
| Comment | Meanings in this semantic shift: babas: ‘our father’, ‘term of endearment, from uncle to nephew and vice versa’, ‘in the mouth of a stranger addressing a boy, it’s a term of endearment, cf. my boy’, etc.; | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Marathi | |
| Lexeme | tāta | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | term of address with endearment | |
| Reference | Molesworth 1857: 374 | |
| Comment | Meaning 2: Applied, in endearment, to one's child. Also another word: bābā m A term of respectful compellation or mention for a father or an elderly person. 2 (Amongst servants and followers of the साहेबलोक.) A term of fondness for a child; little master, young mistress. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tamil | |
| Lexeme | appaṉ | |
| Meaning 1 | father | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | term of endearment used in addressing little children or inferiors | |
| Reference | Tamil lexicon: 85 | |
| Comment | ||