The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

ID	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2
872	old woman	→	wife	Open
5174	young	→	newlywed	Open
159	young	→	husband	Open

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Lezgian
Lexeme		qːuža
Meaning 1	old man
Meaning 2	husband
Reference
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Comment		(LezgRus 191). The same in Tabassaran (ГЪУЖА), cf. (TabRus 114).

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Cognates
Language 1		Yugh
Language 2		Kott
Lexeme 1		xa-čit
Lexeme 2		hat-kīt
Meaning 1	old man
Direction	—
Meaning 2	husband
Reference
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Comment		Старостин 1995, 214

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Nganasan
Lexeme		бǝйкаʔа
Meaning 1	old man
Meaning 2	husband
Reference
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Comment		НМС 169

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Tuvan
Lexeme		ашак
Meaning 1	an aged man, an old man
Meaning 2	husband	ашак-кадай болчур "to be married"
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Comment

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Yakut
Lexeme		оҕонньор
Meaning 1	old man
Direction	—
Meaning 2	husband
Reference
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Comment		Аникин 2000, 508

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Udihe
Lexeme		мафа
Meaning 1	old man
Meaning 2	husband
Reference
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Comment		Кормушин 1998, 259

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Erzya
Lexeme		атя
Meaning 1	old man
Direction	—
Meaning 2	husband
Reference
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Comment		ЭрзРС 63

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Alutiiq Alaskan Yupik
Lexeme		aŋun
Meaning 1	old man
Direction	—
Meaning 2	husband
Reference		Fortescue et al. 2010 page 38
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Comment

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Derivation
Language		Tamil
Lexeme 1		kiẓavan̠
Lexeme 2		maṉaikkiẓavaṉ
Meaning 1	old man
Direction	—
Meaning 2	husband	"Husband, as master of the house", literary "the old man of the house"
Reference		Tamil lexicon page 3318
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Comment		Also: posssibly, the same semantic shift is realised in polysemy "kiẓavaṉ" (Tamil lexicon, 936): there are meanings (1) 'owner, lord, husband' and (2) 'old man'. However, the dictionary considers it as homonymy.

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Polysemy
Language		Pengo
Lexeme		ḍokra
Meaning 1	old man
Direction	—
Meaning 2	husband
Reference		Burrow-Bhattacharya's Pengo page 210
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Comment

ACCEPTED Realization
Type		Derivation
Language		Manda
Lexeme 1		buṛa
Lexeme 2		buṛa-buḍya
Meaning 1	old man
Direction	→
Meaning 2	husband (in the compound form "husband and wife")"
Reference		Ramakrishna Manda page 107
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Comment		compound