sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) potato 9 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme potato
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference OED
Comment From Spanish patata. The 16th-century English herbalist John Gerard referred to sweet potatoes as common potatoes, and used the terms bastard potatoes and Virginia potatoes for the species we now call potato. In many of the chronicles detailing agriculture and plants, no distinction is made between the two. Potatoes are occasionally referred to as Irish potatoes or white potatoes in the United States, to distinguish them from sweet potatoes.
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Derivation
Language Hausa
Lexeme 1 dànkálì
Lexeme 2 dànkálìn násáar̃áa
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference World Loanword Database
Comment dànkálì-n násáaráa [sweet potato-GEN white man]
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Derivation
Language Hawaiian
Lexeme 1 `uala
Lexeme 2 `uala kahiki
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference World Loanword Database
Comment [sweet_potato foreign]
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Derivation
Language Korean
Lexeme gamjeo (감저; 甘藷)
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference Krdict
Comment JWJW From Chinese gānshǔ (甘藷) originally 'lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta)', then 'sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)'First attested 1766 in Korea. The meaning of the word changed into inferring both potato and sweet potato about the 19th century, and later lost its original meaning
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Derivation
Language Q'eqchi'
Lexeme 1 is
Lexeme 2 kaxlan is
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference World Loanword Database
Comment kaxlan is [Spanish sweet.potato]
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Spanish
Lexeme patata
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference DRAE
Comment The word is a hybrid of Antillian (probably Taíno) batata 'sweet potato' and Quechua papa ('potato'). Originally referred to the sweet potato. In modern Spanish batata 'sweet potato' and patata 'potato'.
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Swahili
Lexeme kiazi
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference World Loanword Database
Comment also, for more precision: kiazi mviringo 'potato roundness'. Probably borrowed from Malay kəladi 'tuber, cassava'
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Semantic evolution
Language Tzotzil
Lexeme 7isak’
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference World Loanword Database
Comment 7is-ak’ [sweet_potato-vine]
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Vietnamese
Lexeme khoai tây
Meaning 1 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Direction
Meaning 2 potato
Reference SEAlang Vietnamese
Comment From khoai 'collective name for yams, sweet potatos, etc.' and tây 'western'.