soft (adj.)
→
newborn baby
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Malak-Malak | |
| lexeme | duem | |
| meaning 1 | soft (adj.) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | newborn baby | |
| reference | Lindsay et al. 2017: 39 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Hebrew | |
| lexeme | rach (רַךְ) | |
| meaning 1 | soft | שביל ההרים כוסה כולו בעלים, רך ונעים לדרוך עליו The mountain path was under a blanket of leaves, soft and easy to walk on. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | immature, tender | רך נולד (rach noled) newborn (literally soft born) |
| reference | glosbe.com | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tiwi | |
| lexeme | turlungata, tuwulingata | |
| meaning 1 | soft-shelled crab, just after changing shell | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | newborn baby | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Tiwi lexicon 326, 329 |
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