Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| 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 In his own power had he, and at ease, |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| comment | ||