[Lingtyp] Colexifications in Indo-Aryan and in Dravidian languages

[Siva Kalyan]

Dear Masha,

One example that comes to mind is ‘pit, hollow, pool’ ~ ‘water vessel’, which is attested multiple times in Indo-Aryan:
Vedic kuṇḍá <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=ku%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8D%C3%A1&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact> and descendants
Some descendants of Vedic kumbhá <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=kumbh%C3%A1&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact>
Hindi ḍābar/ḍabrā and its cognates <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=%E1%B8%8Dabbara&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact> (not traceable to Sanskrit)

As far as I know, this colexification is not found in Dravidian, though it can be found in Ancient Greek κῠ́τος <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%8D%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek>, and among the reflexes of Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (> OE cumb <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cumb#Old_English> ‘narrow valley’, German Kumpf <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kumpf#German> ‘vessel’)—the latter is probably related to Vedic kumbhá.

Siva

> On 14 Jan 2025, at 2:46 am, Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> 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.
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> This is a very informal question, and any advice will be greatly appreciated. 
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> Thanks and all the best,
> Maria / Masha
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> Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
> Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University
> Editor-in-chief of “Linguistic Typology”, 
> President-Elect of Societas Linguistica Europaea, 
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