cave
→
den (of thieves etc.)
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | σπήλαιον | |
| meaning 1 | cave | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | den (of thieves etc.) | καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Γέγραπται ὁ οἶκός μου οἶκος προσευχῆς κληθήσεται· ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ποιεῖτε σπήλαιον λῃστῶν. (Matthew 21:13) And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (KJV) |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | barlang | |
| meaning 1 | cave | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a (hidden, secret) place where people engage in illegal activities | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | From a Slavic language (compare Serbo-Croatian brlog 'den, lair'), from Proto-Slavic *bьrlogъ/*bьrloga. Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 https://nagyszotar.nytud.hu/dictsearch.html?query=barlang |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | xué (穴) | |
| meaning 1 | cave | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | den (of thieves etc.) | |
| reference | BKRS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Old Church Slavonic | |
| lexeme | врьтъпъ | |
| meaning 1 | cave | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | den (of thieves etc.) | |
| reference | Cejtlin et al. 1994: 123-124 | |
| comment | ||