Meaning: yesterday

Represented in 140 languages with 17 cognate sets.

Illustrative Context

I haven't seen him today but I did see him yesterday.

Target Sense

  • Term used for the day before today, e.g. French hier.
  • Not ‘the day before’ any other day (not deictic today) taken as the point of reference, e.g. French la veille, etc..

Cognate sets for meaning: yesterday

Id <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. form&nbsp;</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. lang.&nbsp;</span> # clades # lexemes loan? pll loan? pll deriv.? ideoph.? loan src lang. src lex cogset. Details

Lexeme Details

Language Lexeme Phonetic Phonemic Cognate set loan? pll loan? Source lang