mouth
→
door
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Malak-Malak | |
| Lexeme | ari | |
| Meaning 1 | mouth | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | door | |
| Reference | Lindsay et al. 2017: 5 | |
| Comment | Cf. also derivates ariarrarr 'dry mouth' and aritatj 'knock on door'. The last one shows that even if initially the door was meant as an "opening", later the word became to mean the door as an object. | |