<wooden object>
→
fool
19 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | bûche | |
| Meaning 1 | log | fendre des bûches to split wood |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead | |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | caudex | |
| Meaning 1 | trunk (tree), stump, log | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | fool | In me quidvis harum rerum convenit / Quae sunt dicta in stultum; caudex, stripes, asinus, plumbeus (Publius Terentius Afer, Heautontimorumenos) All names for fools suit me: stupid, bone-head, ninny, blockhead, ass |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Glare 287 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | Klotz | |
| Meaning 1 | block, chunk; fetters | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | yokelish, rude person | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | tobwe | |
| Meaning 1 | bush wood | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | fool | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | zoquete | |
| Meaning 1 | log, block | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | boor | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Narumov 1995: 806 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | pen' | |
| Meaning 1 | stub | Сесть бы на пенек, да съесть бы пирожок. (из сказки) I would love to sit on a stub and eat a pie. (from a fairy tale) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead, idiot | a. Этому пню не растолкуешь. 'This blockhead will not understand.' b. Стоять пнем, дураком, ни о чем не заботясь. 'To stand like a blockhead, a fool, without caring for anything.' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Dal') | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme 1 | block | |
| Lexeme 2 | blockhead | |
| Meaning 1 | block, chunk | between the beetle and the block между молотом и наковальней |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | stump | |
| Meaning 1 | stump | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead, idiot | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | souche | |
| Meaning 1 | stump | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | fool, blockhead (colloq.) | |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | čurban | |
| Meaning 1 | stump | Мартышка вздумала трудиться: нашла чурбан и ну над ним возиться! (Крылов) The monkey decided to labour: it found a stump and started playing with it. (Ivan Krylov) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead, fool | Ты, Филька! ты прямой чурбан! (Грибоедов) You, Fil'ka! You are just a blockhead! (Griboedov) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Ushakov) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | k’anč’ | |
| Meaning 1 | stump, block | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | loon | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LezgRus 212) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Icelandic | |
| Lexeme | svoli | |
| Meaning 1 | trunk (tree) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | rude, yokelish | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Берков | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | kisiki | |
| Meaning 1 | stump, block, log | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead (fig., colloq.) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | butuc | |
| Meaning 1 | log, block | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | stupid person | |
| Reference | DEX98 | |
| Comment | DRRS 1, 296, DEX98 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | leño | |
| Meaning 1 | log, beam | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Narumov 1995: 465 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | chump | |
| Meaning 1 | block, chunk | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead, fool | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | odun | |
| Meaning 1 | wood, log | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | tondone | |
| Meaning 1 | log, chunk | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | ninny, dupe | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | Knüppel | |
| Meaning 1 | club, thick stick | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blockhead, yokelish | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
Udmurt тыпы нушы 'hammer, maul of oak wood', 'slow-witted person', ср. рус. "Здравствуй, дерево!" (в ответ на проявление глупости).