Meaning 11.78: the wages

Description: 'the money a worker receives for the work done'
Typical context: The job's not very exciting, but he earns a good wage.
Semantic field: Possession
Semantic category: Noun
Borrowed score
Borrowed score

This gives the average borrowed score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following borrowed scores are assigned to words depending on the degree of likelihood of borrowing:

 
score
1. clearly borrowed
1.00
2. probably borrowed
0.75
3. perhaps borrowed
0.50
4. very little evidence for borrowing
0.25
5. no evidence for borrowing
0.00

:
0.53
Age score
Age score

This gives the average age score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following age scores are assigned to words depending on the estaimated age of their age class:

 
score
1. first attested or reconstructed earlier than 1000
1.00
2. earlier than 1500
0.90
3. earlier than 1800
0.80
4. earlier than 1900
0.70
5. earlier than 1950
0.60
6. earlier than 2007
0.50

:
0.81
Simplicity score
Simplicity score

This gives the average simplicity score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following simplicity scores are assigned to words depending on their analyzability:

 
score
1. unanalyzable
1.00
2. semi-analyzable
0.75
3. analyzable
0.50

:
0.83
Counterpart words in the World Loanword Database
Voc. ID Vocabulary Word Form Original Script Borrowed status Borrowed score Age score Simplicity score Source Words
16 Archi ħaq' 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
ħaq' ( Avar )
6 Tarifiyt Berber paɣa 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
6 Tarifiyt Berber řmunəŧ 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
15 Bezhta xarž 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
xarž ( Avar )
xarj ( Turkic )
26 Ceq Wong gaji (2) 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
gaji ( Malay )
12 Dutch loon 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
12 Dutch salaris 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
13 English wages 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 0.50
3 Gawwada hayye 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
31 Gurindji warukku wumara 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 0.50
4 Hausa àlbâashíi 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian uku 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
39 Hup mæ̌y 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
27 Indonesian gaji 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
gage ( Dutch )
gage ( French )
27 Indonesian upah 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
2 Iraqw bu'utu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
21 Japanese kyūryō 給料 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 1.00 0.50
21 Japanese chingin 賃金 2. probably borrowed 0.75 0.90 0.50
38 Kali'na epetɨ 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 0.50 1.00
5 Kanuri àlwúsùr 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
18 Ket lovetden 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 0.50
14 Kildin Saami pāllh’k па̄ӆӆьк 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian myto 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian lon 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy karàma 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy tàmby 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00
17 Manange ke 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
22 Mandarin Chinese xin1shui 薪水 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
22 Mandarin Chinese gong1zi1 工资 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
41 Mapudungun sweldo 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
11 Old High German lôn 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
35 Otomi nthe̲t'i 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.60 1.00
34 Q'eqchi' po 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 1.00 1.00
8 Romanian salariu 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
8 Romanian leafă 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
19 Sakha χamnas 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
36 Saramaccan paká 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
9 Selice Romani poťinibe 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
9 Selice Romani fizėtíši 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
9 Selice Romani órabíro 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 0.75
7 Seychelles Creole apwentman 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole saler 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili mshahara 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
29 Takia urat nao-n 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
23 Thai khâacâaŋ ค่าจ้้าง 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
33 Zinacantán Tzotzil tohol 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.75
24 Vietnamese tiền công 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 0.50
25 White Hmong nyiaj-hlis 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
40 Wichí lakow’oj 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 1.00
32 Yaqui tomiyo’ori 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 0.50