little, small
→
easy
2 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme 1 | παῦρος | |
| lexeme 2 | φαῦλος | |
| meaning 1 | little, small | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots, 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 489a. The irregular φ- (ph-) representing an expressive *pʰ-, as in Old Armenian փոքր (pʻokʻr, “small”) Meillet, Antoine (1935), “Les sourdes aspirées en arménien”, in Bulletin de la Société de linguistique de Paris, volume 36, pages 112–113 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k321788/f136.image.r |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Sanskrit | |
| lexeme | álpa (अल्प) | |
| meaning 1 | little, small | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (neut. ablative singular) easily, without trouble | |
| reference | MW: 95 | |
| comment | ||