wax
→
yellow
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Bulgarian | |
| lexeme | восъчен | |
| meaning 1 | waxen | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | wax-yellow (of skin) | |
| reference | Bernštejn 1966 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme 1 | cera | |
| lexeme 2 | cereus | |
| meaning 1 | wax | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | yellow | pruna cerea (Verg. E. 2, 53) pale yellow plums |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | Also cereolus 'dim. cereus, of the color of wax' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Meadow Mari | |
| lexeme | шыште | |
| meaning 1 | wax | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | waxen, cream-coloured | |
| reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | воск (vosk) | |
| lexeme 2 | восковой (voskovoj) | |
| meaning 1 | wax | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | waxen | восковой цвет лица wax like complexion |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Syriac | |
| lexeme | šəʕōtā | |
| meaning 1 | wax | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | yellow, the colour of wax | |
| reference | LSyr.: 792 | |
| comment | Cf. also šəʕōtāyā 'flavus', šəʕōtānāyā 'yellow' (ibid.). The word for yellow in some modern Aramaic dialects has also been derived from the word meaning wax (but the same root as in Syrian). See further Bulakh 2019:167. | |