child girl 5 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Malak-Malak
Lexeme alalk
Meaning 1 child, baby

alalk mutyurr-wuna kat-ma wurru=wa


the little kids were playing

Direction
Meaning 2 girl, young girl, female child, young woman
Reference Lindsay et al. 2017: 2
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Middle English
Lexeme girle, gyrle, gurle, geerle, garle
Meaning 1 child of either sex

663: In daunger hadde he at his owene gise
664: The yonge girles of the diocise (Canterbury Tales: General Prologue)


In his own power had he, and at ease,
Young people of the entire diocese,

Direction
Meaning 2 girl, young woman
Reference MED
Comment

perhaps from Old English *gyrele, *gyrle, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade form of *gaurā (“young child”) +‎ *-ilā, ultimately of unknown origin. Cognates are Low German Gör 'child of either sex', Norvegian gårre, Swedish gurre.

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Gör”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, page 272
Torp, Alf (1919), “Gorre”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 176

ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Cognates
Language 1 Mongolian (Khalkha)
Language 2 Kalmyk
Lexeme 1 хүүхэд
Lexeme 2 күүкн
Meaning 1 child (son or daughter)
Direction
Meaning 2 girl, female child
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Buriat хүүгэд 'children'

From Proto-Mongolic *keü-ken

ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Quechua
Lexeme wamra
Meaning 1 child or kid, specifically between ages 4 and 6, around which time they may take up responsibilities within the home; (archaic, Incan) a child between ages 1 and 5
Direction
Meaning 2 (Wanka, San Martin) a girl
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Tuvan
Lexeme уруг
Meaning 1 child (son or daughter)
Direction
Meaning 2 girl
Reference Tenišev 2008
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