heavy (vs. light)
→
important
23 realizations
Multi-area
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 1832) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Farsi | |
| lexeme | ثقیل ṯaqil | |
| meaning 1 | heaviness, weight | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | importance | ثقیل دلیل ṯaqil dalil solid argument |
| reference | Rubinčik 1970: 419 | |
| comment | ПРС 233. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 10193) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Farsi | |
| lexeme | سنگین sangin | |
| meaning 1 | heavy | سنگین چمدان sangin čamedān heavy bag |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | important | سنگین اشتباه sangin eštebāh serious mistake |
| reference | Rubinčik 1970: 2, 63 | |
| comment | ПРС 476. It has been derived from the word сäнг 'stone'. | |
| NEW Realization 8 (ID: 22649) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Khamnigan Mongol | |
| lexeme 1 | kündü | |
| lexeme 2 | kündütei | |
| meaning 1 | heavy (of weight) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | important, respected person | |
| reference | Damdinov, Sundueva 2015: 184 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 10 (ID: 33022) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latvian | |
| lexeme | svarīgs | |
| meaning 1 | (rare) heavy | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | important | |
| reference | Tezaurs.lv | |
| comment | From svars (“weight”) + -īgs the “heavy” sense is still sporadically attested) |
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| NEW Realization 12 (ID: 51265) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Pintupi-Luritja | |
| lexeme | purlka | |
| meaning 1 | heavy (vs. light) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | important | |
| reference | EvoSem | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 (ID: 11832) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | ważny | |
| meaning 1 | heavy (of weight) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | important | |
| reference | Sakhno 2009: 58 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 (ID: 5483) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | вес (ves) | |
| lexeme 2 | весомый (vesomyj) | |
| meaning 1 | weight | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | ponderable | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Cf. also веский 'important' |
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| NEW Realization 16 (ID: 40933) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Sumerian | |
| lexeme | dugud | |
| meaning 1 | to be heavy (of weight) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to be important | |
| reference | ePSD2 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 17 (ID: 41031) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Sumerian | |
| lexeme | aratta | |
| meaning 1 | heavy (of weight) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | important | |
| reference | ePSD2 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 21 (ID: 39171) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme 1 | okka | |
| lexeme 2 | okkalı | |
| meaning 1 | meaure of weight (1.283 kg) | beş okka gelir it weighs 5 okka. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | important | okkalı bir fikir An important idea |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 685 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 22 (ID: 34750) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ukrainian | |
| lexeme | вага | |
| meaning 1 | weight | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | importance | |
| reference | URS Grinchenko 1909: 120 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 23 (ID: 5484) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Ukrainian | |
| language 2 | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | вага (vaha) | |
| lexeme 2 | важный (važnyj) | |
| meaning 1 | weight, burden | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | important | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Cf. Vasmer I: 162; ### Old Slavonic. ДГ! | |
In fact these realizations illustrate two different meanings of 'important', i.e. 'important question/affair' and 'important person'. However in most languages it is difficult to distinguish between two meanings because the dictionaries do not always contain the necessary information.