middle, centre
↔
lap
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ṣulb- | |
| meaning 1 | loins | hāʔulāʔi ʔabnāʔ-u ṣilabat-i-him 'these are the sons of their loins' |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | middle (of a page) | |
| reference | ||
| comment | (Lane 1712); the original meaning is 'back, back-bone' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | gremium | |
| meaning 1 | lap | in gremio matris sedere 'to sit in the mother's lap' |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | centre | gremium maris 'depth of the sea', medio Graeciae gremio 'in the utmost centre of Greece' |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||