cucumber
↔
melon (Cucumis melo)
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme 1 | krastavac | |
| Lexeme 2 | krastavica | |
| Meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a species of a melon | |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Medieval Latin | |
| Language 2 | Latin | |
| Lexeme | cucumis | |
| Meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | Armenian cucumber, snake melon, vegetable melon, Cucumis melo subsp. melo var. flexuosus | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Janick, Jules; Paris, Harry S.; Parrish, David C. (2007), “The Cucurbits of Mediterranean Antiquity: Identification of Taxa from Ancient Images and Descriptions”, in Annals of Botany, volume 100, issue 7, pages 1441–1457 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759226/ |
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| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Borrowing | |
| Language 1 | Modern Hebrew | |
| Language 2 | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme 1 | m'laf'fon (מְלָפְפוֹן) | |
| Lexeme 2 | μηλοπέπων | |
| Meaning 1 | (Mishnaic Hebrew) Armenian cucumber, vegetable melon; (Modern Israeli Hebrew) cucumber | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | (Koine) melon, Cucumis melo | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons p. 775 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | mtango | |
| Meaning 1 | cucumber (Cucumis sativus) | |
| Meaning 2 | a species of a melon (Cucumis metuliferus, Cucumis melo) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polkanov | |