to eat
→
cancer (disease)
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Finnish | |
| Lexeme 1 | syödä | |
| Lexeme 2 | syöpä | |
| Meaning 1 | to eat | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cancer (disease) | |
| Reference | Kielitoimiston sanakirja Vahros, Ščerbakov 2007 | |
| Comment | Literally, “that which eats”, so called because the disease was once believed to be caused by a worm that eats the body from inside. Compare the archaic synonyms ruumiinmato (literally “worm of the body”) and koi (literally “moth”). |
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