sky
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rain
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Nukuoro | |
| lexeme | laŋi | |
| meaning 1 | sky | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | rain | |
| reference | ACD | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Pela (Bolo) | |
| lexeme | mau³¹ | |
| meaning 1 | sky, heaven (in compounds) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | rain | |
| reference | Dai Qingxia 2007 | |
| comment | rom Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk. Cognate with Burmese မိုး (mui:, “sky, rain(n.)”) (From Old Burmese မိုဝ် (muiw)), Tibetan རྨུ་བ (rmu ba, “fog”), Old Chinese 霧 (OC *moɡs, *moːŋ, “fog”), Tangut ¹mə “sky, heaven”), Horpa mɑ mqɑ (“sky”), Sichuan Yi mu sky (in compounds) |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Puluwat | |
| lexeme | láŋ | |
| meaning 1 | sky | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | rain | |
| reference | ACD | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Woleaian | |
| lexeme | laŋ(i) | |
| meaning 1 | sky | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | typhoon, rain-storm | |
| reference | ACD | |
| comment | ||