grey
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grey-haired
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | πολιός | |
| Meaning 1 | grey | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | grey (of human hair) | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Azerbaijani | |
| Lexeme | çal | |
| Meaning 1 | dove-coloured, warm grey, bluish; roan (of horse) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | grey-haired | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme 1 | grey | |
| Lexeme 2 | grey-haired | |
| Meaning 1 | having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | having grey hair | |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Estonian | |
| Lexeme | hall | |
| Meaning 1 | grey | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | grey-haired | |
| Reference | Veskimägi et al. 1995: 395 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karelian | |
| Lexeme | harmua | |
| Meaning 1 | grey | harmua parta grey beard |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | grey-haired | harmuat silmät grey eyes |
| Reference | Zajkov, Rugoeva 1999: 24 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | sur | |
| Meaning 1 | grey | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | grey-haired | |
| Reference | MDA2 | |
| Comment | ||