peacock turkey 1 realization
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Semantic evolution
Language Spanish
Lexeme pavo
Meaning 1 peacock
Direction
Meaning 2 turkey
Reference DRAE Corominas, Pascual: 4, 441-442
Comment

From Latin pavo 'peacock'. In Modern Spanish we can see a marking reversal in pavo real 'peacock' (lit. 'royal turkey', from 1737). Also Spanish rare pavón 'peacock'.

Also Calician pavo, pavón, Asturian, Leonese pavu 'turkey' vs. Portuguese pavão, Old Catalan pahó, Catalan paó, Aromanian pãun, pãunu, paun, paunu, Romanian păun, Italian pavone, paone, Friulian, Lombard, Occitan, Piedmontese pavon, Romansch (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pavun, Romansch (Sutsilvan) pivun, French, Norman (Jersey) paon, Old French, Anglo-Norman paon,  paoun,  pavon,  pavoun;  paue; poeun,  pohoun,  pon,  poon,  pooun,  poum,  poune,  pououn,  pown 'peacock'.