person
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person (grammar)
13 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | persona | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | Lewis, Short | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Old English | |
| Lexeme | hād | |
| Meaning 1 | person, individual | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | Þrī hādas sind worda. Sē forma hād is þe spricþ be him selfum ānum ("iċ seċġe", oþþe mid ōðrum mannum on maniġfealdum ġetæle, "wē seċġaþ"). Sē ōðer hād is þe sē forma spricþ tō ("þū sæġst", oþþe maniġfealdlīċe "ġē seċġaþ"). Sē þridda hād is be þǣm þe sē forma hād spricþ tō þǣm ōðrum hāde ("hē sæġþ", oþþe maniġfealdlīċe "hīe seċġaþ"). Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice c. 995. 'Verbs have three persons. The first person talks about himself alone ("I say", or with other people in the plural, "we say"). The second person is whoever the first person talks to ("you say", or in the plural "y'all say"). The third person is whoever the first person talks about to the second person ("he says", or in the plural "they say").' |
| Reference | Bosworth, Toller: 497 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Czech | |
| Lexeme | osoba | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | SSJČ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Polish | |
| Lexeme | osoba | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | WSJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme | demkʿ (դեմք) | |
| Meaning 1 | face | առաջին դեմքեր, պատմական դեմք 'top officials of the state (lit. 'first persons'), historical figure' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | errord demkʿ (երրորդ դեմք) 'third person' |
| Reference | Galstjan 1984 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Belarusan | |
| Lexeme | асоба | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | Slounik.org | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ukrainian | |
| Lexeme | особа | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | SUM-11 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Slovenian | |
| Lexeme | oseba | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | SSKJ2 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | πρόσωπον | |
| Meaning 1 | person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Georgian | |
| Lexeme | ṗiri (პირი) | |
| Meaning 1 | person | iuridiuli ṗiri (იურიდიული პირი) 'juridical person' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Modern Greek | |
| Lexeme | πρόσωπο | |
| Meaning 1 | person | Το τραπέζι ήταν στρωμένο για δυο πρόσωπα. (Στρατής Τσίρκας, Ακυβέρνητες πολιτείες, 1962) ' The table was set for two people' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | τρίτο πρόσωπο 'third person' |
| Reference | DSMG | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | лицо | |
| Meaning 1 | person | Билет на одно лицо, официальные лица, первые лица государства |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | Глагол в форме первого лица |
| Reference | BTS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme 1 | 人 / rén | |
| Lexeme 2 | 人称 / rénchēng | |
| Meaning 1 | person | 咱们都是人 / zánmen dōu shì rén 'We are all humans.' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person (grammar) | 人称变位 / rénchēng biànwèi 'personal conjugation' |
| Reference | BKRS | |
| Comment | ||