Meaning 22.14: the altar

Description: ‘a raised place on which religious rites are performed’
Semantic field: Religion and belief
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

:		 0.69
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

:		 0.82
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
12 Dutch altaar 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
13 English altar 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
37 Imbabura Quechua altar 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00
27 Indonesian altar 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
21 Japanese saidan 祭壇 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 0.50
14 Kildin Saami voltar волтар 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian hołtaŕ 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy àlitara 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
28 Malagasy aotèly 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
17 Manange ɫʌkʰaŋ 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 1.00 0.75
22 Mandarin Chinese ji4tan2 祭坛 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
22 Mandarin Chinese sheng4tan2 圣坛 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
11 Old High German altâri 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
35 Otomi ntsaya jwä 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi tsita 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi ata 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
34 Q'eqchi' artal 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
8 Romanian oltar 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
36 Saramaccan gádútáfa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 0.50
9 Selice Romani oltári 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole lotel 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili altare 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
1 Swahili madhabahu 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
29 Takia altar 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.60 1.00
23 Thai thâen แท่น 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
33 Zinacantán Tzotzil 7altal 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
24 Vietnamese bàn thờ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
25 White Hmong thaj 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
40 Wichí altal 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00
32 Yaqui altaar 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00