dirty → bad 14 realizations Multi-area
NEW Realization 1 (ID: 52932)
type Polysemy
language Bezhta
lexeme čikeyo
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference CLICS-4
comment

 Erben Johansson, N., Anikin, A., Carling, G., & Holmer, A. (2020). The typology of sound symbolism: Defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features, Linguistic Typology , 24(2), 253-310. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2034 

NEW Realization 2 (ID: 52930)
type Polysemy
language Dupaningan Agta
lexeme madukas
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference Greenhill et al. 2008 CLICS-4
comment


ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 52264)
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme sale
meaning 1 dirty

vaisselle sale


dirty dishes

direction →
meaning 2 bad

sale caractère


bad character

reference ABBYY LINGUO
comment
NEW Realization 4 (ID: 52931)
type Polysemy
language Kibosho
lexeme -icho
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference CLICS-3
comment
NEW Realization 5 (ID: 52929)
type Polysemy
language Nivaclé
lexeme sas
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference CLICS-4 IDS
comment

 List, J.-M. (2023): Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists. Frontiers in Psychology 14.1156540. 1-10. 

NEW Realization 6 (ID: 52927)
type Polysemy
language Otomi
lexeme xi nts'o
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference World Loanword Database CLICS-4
comment
NEW Realization 7 (ID: 52934)
type Polysemy
language Queyu (Choyo, Choyu)
lexeme qa⁵⁵stsue⁵⁵
meaning 1 (Xinlong Queyu) dirty
direction —
meaning 2 (Xinlong Queyu) bad
reference CLICS-4
comment

 Lai, Yunfan and List, Johann-Mattis (2023): Lexical Data for the Historical Comparison of Rgyalrongic Languages [Dataset, Version 1.0]. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 

ACCEPTED Realization 8 (ID: 48877)
type Polysemy
language Rengao
lexeme ʹmĕ̀
meaning 1 dirty
direction →
meaning 2 bad
reference Gregerson & Gregerson 2026: 172
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 49029)
type Polysemy
language Rengao
lexeme mĕ̀ʹ ʹmăk
meaning 1 to be dirty
direction —
meaning 2 to be bad
reference Gregerson & Gregerson 2026: 209
comment
NEW Realization 10 (ID: 52933)
type Polysemy
language Soo
lexeme ɲamʊg
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference CLICS-4
comment

 Erben Johansson, N., Anikin, A., Carling, G., & Holmer, A. (2020). The typology of sound symbolism: Defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features, Linguistic Typology , 24(2), 253-310. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2034 

ACCEPTED Realization 11 (ID: 39786)
type Polysemy
language Turkish
lexeme pis
meaning 1 dirt, dirty

akar su pis tutmaz


the running water doesn't contain dirt. 

direction →
meaning 2 bad

pis hava


awful weather

reference Baskakov 1977: 722
comment
NEW Realization 12 (ID: 52926)
type Polysemy
language Udmurt
lexeme аша
meaning 1 (dialect) dirty
direction →
meaning 2 (dialect) bad
reference Kirillova 2008
comment
NEW Realization 13 (ID: 52935)
type Polysemy
language Witoto Murui
lexeme xeaɾe
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference CLICS-4
comment

 Erben Johansson, N., Anikin, A., Carling, G., & Holmer, A. (2020). The typology of sound symbolism: Defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features, Linguistic Typology , 24(2), 253-310. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2034 

NEW Realization 14 (ID: 52928)
type Polysemy
language Yaneshaʼ (Amuesha)
lexeme sosej
meaning 1 dirty
direction —
meaning 2 bad
reference CLICS-4
comment

 Ugarte, Carlos and Blum, Frederic and Ingunza, Adriano and Gonzales, Rosa and Peña, Jaime. Forthcoming. NorthPeruLex - A Lexical Dataset of Small Language Families and Isolates from Northern Peru.