magpie (Pica pica)
—
woodpecker
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language | Moksha | |
| Lexeme | шякшата | |
| Meaning 1 | magpie (Pica pica) | Ах, шякшата, шякшата, мес пулоце кувака? (колядка) Ah, magpie, magpie, why do you have a long tail? (kolyadka. Chirstmas traditional song ) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | (dialectal) woodpecker | Вов и вирсь. Сонь сетьмонц ванцы корожсь. Чёфксне кельмоть эзда эводсть, тусть. Аньцек ськамонза юватькшни корожсь да шякшатась таркси сукст ( И. Чигодайкин, Кши и сал) Here is the forest. His calmness is guarded by an owl. The nightingales were afraid of the cold and flew away. Only one eagle owl gives a voice and the woodpecker takes out the worms |
| Reference | Serebrennikov et al. 1998 | |
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