black → low (social) 5 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Lithuanian
lexeme 1 tamsùs
lexeme 2 tamsuõliai
meaning 1 dark
direction →
meaning 2 mob, populace
reference
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Mongolian (Khalkha)
lexeme har
meaning 1 black
meaning 2 simple, common, vulgar
reference
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Derivation
language Osetin
lexeme 1 saw
lexeme 2 sawlæg
meaning 1 black
direction →
meaning 2 person of base estate
reference
comment læg 'person'
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme 1 чёрный (černyj)
lexeme 2 чернь (čern')
meaning 1 black
direction →
meaning 2 plain folk
reference
comment Old Rus. чърнии люди, чърнъ 'common people', Ucr. чернь 'common people', чéрнява 'common people, mob', Old Ucr. чорныє люди 'peasants that possessed their own land lots and paid taxes and rent the feudal lord. (Словн. Ст.-укр. Мови 2, 547), белор. Чэрнъ 'чернь', пол. Czerń 'чернь, плебс, толпа'. (Журавлев 2007, 99)
ACCEPTED Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Tuvan
lexeme кара
meaning 1 black
direction →
meaning 2 simple кара кижи
common person
reference
comment The same in Karaim. (КРПС 290-291).

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