<vessel> → skull 14 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Akkadian
lexeme gulgullu
meaning 1 'container shaped like a human skull'
direction ←
meaning 2 'skull'
reference CAD
comment CAD g 127-128
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme pan
meaning 1 pan
meaning 2 skull
reference
comment The same word can mean 'face', see the shift DISH-FACE.
NEW Realization 3
type Derivation
language Kubachi
lexeme 1 вахъ
lexeme 2 бикIла вахъ
meaning 1 bowl
direction →
meaning 2 skull
reference Magomedov, Saidov-Akkutta 2017: 81
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Borrowing
language 1 Latin
language 2 Lithuanian
lexeme 1 caucula
lexeme 2 kaukolė
meaning 1 dim. From caucus 'cup'
direction →
meaning 2 skull
reference
comment Buck 214. Путь заимствования неясен.
ACCEPTED Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Moksha
lexeme кавозь
meaning 1 pot сёвонень кавозь
a clay pot
direction →
meaning 2 skull шава кавозь
empty head
reference
comment МокшРС 214
ACCEPTED Realization 6
type Cognates
language 1 Old English
language 2 Gothic
lexeme 1 hwer
lexeme 2 hwairnei
meaning 1 cauldron, pot
direction —
meaning 2 skull
reference
comment Also Old Icel. hverna ‘vessel, pot’ Buck 214
ACCEPTED Realization 7
type Derivation
language Osetin
lexeme 1 kæxc
lexeme 2 særgæxc
meaning 1 bowl
direction →
meaning 2 skull
reference
comment 'head' + 'cup', Абаев 3, 83
ACCEPTED Realization 8
type Derivation
language Polish
lexeme 1 czasza
lexeme 2 czaszka
meaning 1 bowl
direction →
meaning 2 skull
reference
comment
NEW Realization 9
type Polysemy
language Sanskrit
lexeme kapā́la (कपाल)
meaning 1 bowl
direction ←
meaning 2 skull
reference MW
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10
type Polysemy
language Slovak
lexeme črep
meaning 1 (цветочный) горшок, черепок
direction →
meaning 2 skull
reference
comment Also the Rus. Череп (skull), черепок (fragment), черепица (tile), Bulg. череп 'skull', чиреп 'fragment', Bulg. dial. чир’ъп, чиреп ‘clay pot’, Serb. цреп ‘fragment, tile’, possibly also Old Prus. kerpetis ‘skull’, Germ. Scherbe ‘fragment’, dial. ‘clay pot’, Sanskr. karpara ‘fragment, pot, skull’. Buck 214, ЭССЯ 4, 72
ACCEPTED Realization 11
type Derivation
language Swedish
lexeme 1 skål
lexeme 2 skalle
meaning 1 bowl, cup en stor skål jord­gubbar
a big bowl of strawberries
direction →
meaning 2 skull en spricka i skallen
skull fracture
reference SAO
comment Also Nor. skalle 'skull', Dan. skaal ‘cup’. It has been borrowed from the Scandinavian languages into Middle Engl.: skulle 'skull', Mod. Eng. Skull. Buck 214
NEW Realization 12
type Polysemy
language Thai
lexeme gà-lòok (กะโหลก)
meaning 1 scoop or dipper made of coconut shell
direction →
meaning 2 skull
reference SEAlang Thai
comment

First meaning 'coconut shell or palmyra palm shell'
ACCEPTED Realization 13
type Polysemy
language Tibetan
lexeme ka-pa-la
meaning 1 skull, forehead
direction —
meaning 2 cup made of skull
reference
comment Intermediate case. The cup is indeed made of a skull. Рерих I.30.
ACCEPTED Realization 14
type Cognates
language 1 Turkish
language 2 Oyrot
lexeme 1 güveç
lexeme 2 кө:ш
meaning 1 pot
meaning 2 skull
reference
comment Alatai (dial.)

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