stone (piece of rock)
→
unit of length
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Indonesian | |
| lexeme | batu | |
| meaning 1 | stone (piece of rock) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mile | |
| reference | KBBI | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Malay | |
| lexeme | batu | |
| meaning 1 | stone (piece of rock) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mile | |
| reference | Rott et al. 1977.: 39 | |
| comment | ||
'stone' > 'milestone' > 'mile'. Semantic influence of English milestone in Malay and Indonesian. Many languages have also borrowed Malay batu in the meaning ‘milestone; mile’, for marking travel distances, as with Mapun batu ‘kilometer; marker along the road for counting kilometers (made from cement or wood)’, Lun Dayeh batuh ‘a mile’, Iban batu ‘milestone; mile’ (ACD).