wizard, magician ↔ doctor, physician 4 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Cognates
language 1 Bulgarian
language 2 Russian
lexeme vrač
meaning 1 wizard
direction —
meaning 2 doctor
reference
comment Фасмер 1, 361. The source meaning is supposed to be that of 'sorcerer, magician'.
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Cognates
language 1 Bulgarian
language 2 Old Church Slavonic
lexeme 1 baja
lexeme 2 балии
meaning 1 I am conjuring
direction —
meaning 2 doctor
reference
comment
NEW Realization 3
type Polysemy
language Itelmen
lexeme клэчиʔԓʔин
meaning 1 shaman
direction ←
meaning 2 doctor, physician
reference PIRS: 153
comment

From лэчэʔԓкас 'to heal' from Russian лечить
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Swahili
lexeme agua
meaning 1 to explain, to interpret (signs, dreams); to predict, to prophesy
direction —
meaning 2 to treat with medicine
reference
comment Also the noun aguzi ‘interpretation (of signs, dreams)’; ‘predicting, foretelling’; pl. ‘medicines, remedies’, ‘magic potions’

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