cattle
→
<curse: bad person>
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Abaza | |
| Lexeme | ħajwan | |
| Meaning 1 | livestock | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bad person | |
| Reference | Tugov 1967 | |
| Comment | скот | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Abaza | |
| Lexeme | ɕamaq’ə | |
| Meaning 1 | cattle | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bad person | |
| Reference | Tugov 1967 | |
| Comment | крупный рогатый скот | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | ənsəsa | |
| Meaning 1 | 'animal (often a domestic animal)' | |
| Meaning 2 | 'blockhead, dolt, simpleton' | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | K 1213 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | cattle | |
| Meaning 1 | cattle | twenty head of cattle двадцать голов рогатого скота |
| Meaning 2 | rabble (disdainf.) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | beast | |
| Meaning 1 | beast | beast of prey хищный зверь |
| Meaning 2 | stubborn, unpleasant person (playful) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | marha | |
| Meaning 1 | cattle | száz darab marha one hundred head of cattle |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bad, rude person | |
| Reference | Гальди 1974: 482 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | hajwan | |
| Meaning 1 | animal, beast | кIвалин гьайван tame animal |
| Meaning 2 | simpleton, dupe; ignorant | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LezgRus 97). As a swear word is used in many languages of Daghestan. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Borrowing | |
| Language 1 | Polish | |
| Language 2 | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | bydło | |
| Lexeme 2 | bydlo | |
| Meaning 1 | cattle | |
| Meaning 2 | stupid, weak willed people obedient to force | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | "В устах помещиков - крепостников - презрительное обозначение крестьянской массы, как безвольного, бессловесного и покорного стада, опекаемого помещиком." (Landowners used it as a contemptous reference to the mass of peasants, regarded as weak-willed, mute and obedient flock patronized by the squire.) (Ushakov) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | skot, skotina | |
| Meaning 1 | cattle, livestock | a. Рогатый скот 'flocks and herds'. Вагон для скота 'cattle box'. |
| Meaning 2 | brute | Всякому дураку подарки давай, всякий скот на водку просит. (Сухово-Кобылин) Every fool wants his present, every brute asks money to buy vodka. (Sukhovo-Kobylin) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Ushakov) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme | сүөhү | |
| Meaning 1 | cattle | ынах сүөhү livestock |
| Meaning 2 | brute | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ЯРС 349. | |