53 realizations found in Middle English
Download Excel| ID | Shift | Language | Lexeme | Meaning 1 | Dir | Meaning 2 | |
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| #11 | to calculate, count → to tell | Middle English | tale | to calculate, count | → | to tell, narrate | Open realization |
| #68 | morning ↔ tomorrow | Middle English | morwe | morning | — | tomorrow | Open realization |
| #239 | to make scratches → to write | Middle English | writen | to engrave, carve, or scratch | → | to write | Open realization |
| #563 | man (male) ↔ human, person | Middle English | man | man (male) | — | human, person | Open realization |
| #733 | curved → false, wrong | Middle English English |
wrong | curved, crooked, bent | — | wrong | Open realization |
| #744 | tongue (body part) → language | Middle English | tonge | tongue (body part) | → | language | Open realization |
| #960 | to ask for, request ↔ to ask, inquire | Middle English | axen, axien, asken, askien, aschen | to ask for, request | ← | to ask, inquire | Open realization |
| #1457 | bow (weapon) → rainbow | Middle English | boue, bowe | bow (weapon) | — | rainbow | Open realization |
| #1706 | pig (Sus scrofa) → woodlouse | Middle English | sowe | sow; a female pig | → | wood-louse | Open realization |
| #2074 | to plant → plant (biol.) | Middle English | planten / plante | to plant, put (a seed or plant) in the ground | → | plant (biol.) | Open realization |
| #2204 | young person → soldier | Middle English | barn | child, youth | → | young warrior | Open realization |
| #2526 | white → wheat | Middle English | whit, hwit / whete | white | → | wheat | Open realization |
| #2541 | big → great | Middle English | dregh | big | — | great | Open realization |
| #2557 | frog → toad | Middle English | frogge | frog | → | toad | Open realization |
| #2664 | pig (Sus scrofa) → hedgehog (Еrinaceus) | Middle English | hoge, hogge / heyghoge | pig | → | hedgehog (Еrinaceus) | Open realization |
| #2916 | worm ↔ snake | Middle English | worm | worm | — | snake | Open realization |
| #2993 | little, small → stupid | Middle English | bref | brief; (rare) diminutive, little | → | (rare) stupid | Open realization |
| #3045 | cloud ↔ sky | Middle English | ski, skie, sky | cloud | → | sky | Open realization |
| #3142 | price → award | Middle English | price | price | — | award | Open realization |
| #3191 | cuckoo → cuckold, deceived husband | Middle English | cokkou, cuckow, kukkow, kockow, kokkow, cukkow, cockou, cokkow, kukkowe, cuccu / cokewold | cuckoo | → | cuckold, deceived husband | Open realization |
| #3376 | big ↔ strong | Middle English English |
big | Of living beings: Of great strength or power; strong, stout, mighty | → | Of great size, bulk, or extent; large | Open realization |
| #3775 | crown (n.) → tonsure (of monk) | Middle English | coroune | crown (n.) | → | patch of shaved hair (usually of a monk) | Open realization |
| #3846 | genuine, true → very, of high degree | Middle English | verrei / verrei | true | → | very | Open realization |
| #3929 | glass (material) ↔ mirror | Middle English | glas | glass (material) | — | mirror | Open realization |
| #4397 | metal spike → pike (fish) | Middle English | pike (pikke, peke, piche, pig) | spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone | → | pike Esox lucius | Open realization |
| #5224 | child (son or daughter) — child (vs. adult) | Middle English | barn | offspring, a son or daughter | — | infant, a child | Open realization |
| #5224 | child (son or daughter) — child (vs. adult) | Middle English | chīld | descendent (of particular parents), son or daughter | — | young child, a baby, boy or girl (usually to the age of puberty) | Open realization |
| #5955 | shield → shooting target | Middle English English |
target | light shield, often small and round in shape; a targe, buckler | → | shooting target | Open realization |
| #6151 | cone (fruit) → pineapple | Middle English English |
pineapple | pinecone | → | tropical plant, Ananas comosus | Open realization |
| #6519 | horse → hippopotamus | Middle English | hors / water hors | horse (Equus caballus) | → | hippopotamus | Open realization |
| #7203 | bee → bumblebee | Middle English | be / humbul-be | bee | → | bumblebee | Open realization |
| #7408 | spine, backbone → back (body part) | Middle English | chyne | spine | → | back (body part) | Open realization |
| #7432 | urine → ant | Middle English | pisse / pissemyre, pismire | urine | → | ant | Open realization |
| #7585 | to ride (e.g., a horse) → to sail | Middle English | riden | to ride (e.g., a horse) | → | to sail | Open realization |
| #8075 | firewood → fuel | Middle English English |
feuē̆l, fewell | items to be burnt, firewood | → | fuel | Open realization |
| #8230 | mallow → hollyhock | Middle English English |
hocke, hokke, hoc / holihocke, holyhokke, holihoc | mallow | → | hollyhock | Open realization |
| #8231 | mallow → marsh mallow | Middle English | hocke, hokke, hoc | mallow | — | marsh mallow | Open realization |
| #8251 | bed → sexual partner | Middle English | bed / bedfelawe | bed | → | a close partner, especially one which one cohabits with; a concubine; a secondary female sexual partner | Open realization |
| #8325 | stomach ↔ womb, uterus | Middle English | wombe | stomach | — | womb | Open realization |
| #8333 | child — girl | Middle English | girle, gyrle, gurle, geerle, garle | child of either sex | — | girl, young woman | Open realization |
| #9170 | dairy product → butterfly | Middle English | boter / boterflye | butter | → | butterfly | Open realization |
| #9186 | carriage → Big Dipper (Ursa Major) | Middle English | wayn / Charlewayn | carriage | → | Big Dipper | Open realization |
| #9205 | ear → earwig (Forficula auricularia) | Middle English | ere, eare / erwigge | ear | → | earwig (Forficula auricularia) | Open realization |
| #9379 | deficiency, lack → to need | Middle English English |
wanten / to want | to lack | → | to be necessary | Open realization |
| #10368 | ignorant → pleasant | Middle English English |
nice | foolish, ignorant, frivolous, senseless (of persons) | → | pleasant | Open realization |
| #10369 | evil (adj.) → clever, wise | Middle English English |
shreued / shrewd | wicked, depraved, malicious, evil | → | having or showing the insight, intelligence, and understanding to make good judgments about practical matters (Merriam-Webster) | Open realization |
| #10440 | father → godfather | Middle English | fader / godfader | father | → | godfather | Open realization |
| #10486 | sphere; ball → head | Middle English | bal | ball (an object of spherical shape) | → | one's head | Open realization |
| #2424 | pine-tree → spruce, firtree (Picea) | Old English Middle English |
furh / fyrre | pine tree | → | fir tree | Open realization |
| #2704 | chip, splinter → spoon | Old English Middle English |
spōn / spone | chip, splinter | → | spoon | Open realization |
| #3220 | to answer — to help, aid | Icelandic Middle English |
gegna / gaynen | (obsolete) to answer | — | to aid, help | Open realization |
| #4996 | to strike, hit → reed (in loom) | Old English Middle English |
sleġe / sleie, slai | blow, hit; death blow, murder | → | reed (in loom) | Open realization |
| #8535 | to lick → index finger | English Middle English |
to lick / lic-pot, likpot, lycpott | to lick | → | index finger | Open realization |