<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Masha,<div><br></div><div>One example that comes to mind is ‘pit, hollow, pool’ ~ ‘water vessel’, which is attested multiple times in Indo-Aryan:</div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Vedic <a href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=ku%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8D%C3%A1&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact"><i>kuṇḍá</i></a> and descendants</li><li>Some descendants of Vedic <a href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=kumbh%C3%A1&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact"><i>kumbhá</i></a></li><li>Hindi <i>ḍābar</i>/<i>ḍabrā</i> and <a href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=%E1%B8%8Dabbara&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact">its cognates</a> (not traceable to Sanskrit)</li></ul><div><br></div><div>As far as I know, this colexification is not found in Dravidian, though it can be found in Ancient Greek <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%8D%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek">κῠ́τος</a>, and among the reflexes of Proto-Germanic <i>*kumbaz</i> (> OE <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cumb#Old_English"><i>cumb</i></a> ‘narrow valley’, German <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kumpf#German"><i>Kumpf</i></a> ‘vessel’)—the latter is probably related to Vedic <i>kumbhá</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>Siva</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 14 Jan 2025, at 2:46 am, Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div>I am looking for examples of colexifications that are typically Indo-Aryan resp. Dravidian, or at least seem to be more prevalent in (some of) the Indo-Aryan resp. (some of) the Dravidian languages.</div>
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<div>This is a very informal question, and any advice will be greatly appreciated. </div>
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<div>Thanks and all the best,</div>
<div>Maria / Masha</div>
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<div>Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm<br>
Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University</div>
<div>Editor-in-chief of “Linguistic Typology”, </div>
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http://www.ling.su.se/tamm<br>
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