rear end
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back (body part)
2 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | back | |
| meaning 1 | that which is farthest away from the front | He sat in the back of the room. I hung the clothes on the back of the door. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | I hurt my back lifting those crates. |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Malagasy | |
| lexeme | vóho | |
| meaning 1 | rear end | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | back (body part) | |
| reference | Korneev 1966: 562 | |
| comment | ||