A Comparative Study of Pejoration in English and Egyptian Vernacular Arabic from a Historical-Sociolinguistic Approach

Table 3

Metaphorical extension of meaning and pejoration.

	Original meaning	Metaphorical extension and pejoration
Ex.1	Shīmal means left	The conceptual metaphor of shīmal has its roots in Qur’an
Ex.2	Sāqitah	In Classical Arabic, sāqitah refers to something falling down