difficult
—
good
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khamnigan Mongol | |
| Lexeme | berke | |
| Meaning 1 | difficult, hard | ketsü: bekre tsag hard time (Example from Damdinov, Sundueva 90). |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | good, well | 1. awu mini l üсügüldür l ayaGa: śinaGa: börkö:r uGa:Ga:d l büdžigind yawadž bolku gej kölösön
2. Börköl baina 1. Father told me yesterday: “you may go to the dances if you wash dishes well" 2. that’s great. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | in Damdinov, Sundueva 90 these roots are considered homonymic, but it is clearly not the case. These meanings historically developed from the one root which meant 'difficult' in Proto-Mongolic. | |