snake
→
guileful, crafty person
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Adyghe | |
| Lexeme | blašhwe | |
| Meaning 1 | gray snake (poisonous) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | Gorgon, Fury | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | АдРС 29 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | serpent | |
| Meaning 1 | snake | venin du serpent snake venom |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cunning person | |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | kigyó | |
| Meaning 1 | snake | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | guileful, crafty person | kigyót melengetni keblén to cherish a serpent in one's bosom |
| Reference | Гальди 1974: 381 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | ilan | |
| Meaning 1 | snake | иланди яна the snake bit (lit. Hit) |
| Meaning 2 | nimble, elusive | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LezgRus 145) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | zmeja | |
| Meaning 1 | snake | a. Гремучая змея 'rattlesnake'. |
| Meaning 2 | insidious, spiteful, evil | a. Змея подколодная 'a snake in the grass'. |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Cf. Dal': ЗМИЙ, змей змия, змея (snake) - Злой человек, скрытный и злобный (an evil person, reticent and malisious). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | käysi | |
| Meaning 1 | 'snake, serpent' | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | 'cunning, wily person' | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | KT 1680 | |