skeleton
→
lean, thin (of a person)
8 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | kmaxkʻ (կմախք) | |
| meaning 1 | skeleton | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (figuratively, derogatory) very thin person | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Bashkir | |
| lexeme | һөлдә | |
| meaning 1 | skeleton | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (figurative) very thin person | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | skeleton | |
| meaning 1 | the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (figuratively) a very thin person. | She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton. |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme | scheletro | |
| meaning 1 | skeleton | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very thin person | |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Malayalam | |
| lexeme | asthikūṭaṁ (അസ്ഥികൂടം) | |
| meaning 1 | skeleton | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (figuratively) a very thin person. | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | szkielet | |
| meaning 1 | skeleton | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (colloquial, figurative) very thin person | |
| reference | WSJP | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme | esqueleto | |
| meaning 1 | skeleton | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (figuratively, derogatory) a very thin person | |
| reference | DPLP | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | kadit | |
| meaning 1 | skeleton | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | lean, thin man | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 495 | |
| comment | ||