Meanings: Semantic Field Law

The Loanword Typology code is the identifier of the Loanword Typology meaning. Sorting by LWT Code sorts the words thematically by semantic field.

This column shows the labels of the Loanword Typology meanings. By clicking on a meaning label, you get more information about the meaning, as well as a list of all words that are counterparts of that meaning.

Meanings were assigned to semantic categories with word-class-like labels: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, function words. No claim is made about the grammatical behavior of words corresponding to these meanings. The categories are intended to be purely semantic.

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

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

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

This column shows how many counterparts for this meaning there are in the 41 languages. The number can be higher than 41 because a language may have several counterparts for one meaning ("synonyms"), and it may be lower than 41, because not all languages may have a counterpart for a meaning.