corn crake
—
water rail
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Czech | |
| Lexeme | chřástal | |
| Meaning 1 | corn crake | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | water rail | |
| Reference | SSJČ | |
| Comment | chřástal polní 'corn crake', chřástal vodní 'water rail' | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | rail | |
| Meaning 1 | corn crake | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | water rail | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | landrail 'corn crake'. From French râle, rale, from Middle French raalle, from Old French rasle, Vulgar Latin *rasculum, from Latin rādere 'to scrape' (Compare Medieval Latin rallus). Named from its harsh cry | |