grain, seed
→
descendant
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Akkadian | |
| Lexeme | zēru | |
| Meaning 1 | seed (of cereals and other plants) | ŠE.NUMUN (zēram) u ŠA.GÁL ša erēši šūbilam (YOS 2 126:11 letter) send me the seed and the fodder for the plowing |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | male descendant(s) | šumšu NUMUN-šú (zērūšu) KUR (mātam) Aššur libēlū (ABL 614 r.7 Neo-Assyrian) may his son (lit. his name) and descendants rule Assyria |
| Reference | CAD: z 89-94 AHw.: 1521 | |
| Comment | From the Proto-Semitic root *ḏarˀ-, *ḏarˁ, *zarˁ- - seed (cf. CDG 642; Fronzaroli 1969: 9–10, 26, 33; Kogan 2011: 200). |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | σπόρος | |
| Meaning 1 | seed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | offspring | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | σπέρμα | |
| Meaning 1 | seed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (poetic) offspring | καὶ ἀναλαβόντες τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῶν καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν κτῆσιν, ἣν ἐκτήσαντο ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, εἰσῆλθον εἰς Αἴγυπτον, Ἰακὼβ καὶ πᾶν τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ, υἱοὶ καὶ υἱοὶ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ, θυγατέρες καὶ θυγατέρες τῶν θυγατέρων αὐτοῦ· καὶ πᾶν τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ἤγαγεν εἰς Αἴγυπτον. (Genesis 46.6-7) And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | zäraˁ | |
| Meaning 1 | seed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | offspring, descendants | |
| Reference | HALAT: 282 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Armenian | |
| Lexeme | sermn (սերմն) | |
| Meaning 1 | grain, seed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (figuratively) progeny, race, descendants | |
| Reference | Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | урлукъ | |
| Meaning 1 | seed; sowing | |
| Meaning 2 | children, posterity | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | zhǒngzi, zhǒngzǐ (種子, 种子) | |
| Meaning 1 | grain, seed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (archaic, often derogatory) seed; offspring; descendant; son | |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Meadow Mari | |
| Lexeme | урлык | |
| Meaning 1 | seed, seeds (for sowing) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | descendant | Ватыже лекарьын ӱдыржӧ, шкеже учитыл эрге улмаш. Икманаш, коктынат интеллигент урлык лийыныт. (Валентин Косоротов) His wife was the daughter of a doctor, he himself was the son of a teacher. In a word, both were descendants of intellectuals. |
| Reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
| Lexeme | ür | |
| Meaning 1 | grain, seed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | descendant | |
| Reference | BAMRS 2001-2002 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Syriac | |
| Lexeme | zarˁā | |
| Meaning 1 | seed; sowing | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | offspring, family | |
| Reference | LSyr.: 207 SL: 400 | |
| Comment | ||