Meaning 20.36: the tower

Typical context: From the tower you can see the entire town.
Semantic field: Warfare and hunting
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

:
0.50
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

:
0.78
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

:
0.88
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 c’ut 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
6 Tarifiyt Berber lʕimara ? 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
15 Bezhta mukro 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
12 Dutch toren 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
13 English tower 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
4 Hausa hàsúumíyàa 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian pū`o`a 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
37 Imbabura Quechua durri 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
27 Indonesian menara 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 1.00
2 Iraqw /aampa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00
21 Japanese tō (2) 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
( Chinese )
14 Kildin Saami bašn’a башня 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian torm 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy tilikàmbo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.75
22 Mandarin Chinese ta3 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 1.00
22 Mandarin Chinese lou2 楼, 樓 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
11 Old High German turri 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
35 Otomi ñänijä 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi nts'änijä 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi manijä 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi denijä 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi ndehe ar nijä 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
34 Q'eqchi' tore 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
8 Romanian turn 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
Turm ( German )
36 Saramaccan tö́lu 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
toren ( Dutch )
9 Selice Romani torňo 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
Turm ( German )
7 Seychelles Creole tour 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili mnara 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
23 Thai hɔ̌ɔkhɔɔy หอคอย 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
24 Vietnamese tháp 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
25 White Hmong pej thuam 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50