mother
→
womb, uterus
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme 1 | μήτηρ | |
| Lexeme 2 | μήτρα | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | womb | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | LSJ 1129-1130 | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Catalan | |
| Lexeme | mare | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | uterus (of an animal) | |
| Reference | DIEC2 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme 1 | mater | |
| Lexeme 2 | matrix | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Meaning 2 | pregnant (animal) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Glare 1082 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Polish | |
| Language 2 | Russian | |
| Lexeme | matka | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | womb | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Both meanings in the Bel. матка. In Czech, Slovak matka means only 'mother'. In Bulg., Mac., Ucr. Only 'womb'. The Rus. 'матка' is morphologically related to 'mother'. The meaning 'womb' is also present in the Ucr. матиця, Bulg. майка, матка, Bulg., Serb., Maced. матерща, Serb.-Cr., Sloven. maternica, пол. Macica СД 3, 207 | |
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Portuguese | |
| Lexeme | madre | |
| Meaning 1 | (obsolete) mother | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | womb, uterus | |
| Reference | DPLP | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | madre | |
| Meaning 1 | mother | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | womb in which the fetus develops | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||