forest
→
bear (Ursus)
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karelian | |
| Lexeme | mečča | |
| Meaning 1 | forest | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bear (Ursus) | |
| Reference | Žarinova 2006: 39 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Livvi-Karelian | |
| Lexeme | meččü | |
| Meaning 1 | forest | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bear (Ursus) | |
| Reference | Žarinova 2006: 39 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Tuvan | |
| Lexeme 1 | тайга | |
| Lexeme 2 | тайга ээзи | |
| Meaning 1 | taiga | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (euphemism) bear | |
| Reference | Suvandii 2016: 139 | |
| Comment | 'lord of taiga' Todzhi dialect | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme 1 | тыа | |
| Lexeme 2 | тыатааҕы | |
| Meaning 1 | forest | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (euphemism) bear | |
| Reference | Bagardynov 2020 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme 1 | ойуур | |
| Lexeme 2 | ойуурдааҕы | |
| Meaning 1 | forest | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bear (Ursus) | |
| Reference | DSJJ: II, 197 | |
| Comment | 'located in the forest'. "common, claiming to be a literary norm" (Bagardynov 2020) | |
hunter's euphemism