pimple
—
bud (of a flower)
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | bouton | |
| meaning 1 | pimple | être couvert de boutons to be covered with rash |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | bud | |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | Inherited from Middle French bouton, boton, from Old French bouton, boton 'button, bud', from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Frankish *bautō 'that which pushes up, bump, knob', from Proto-West Germanic *bautan 'to beat, push'. By surface analysis, bouter + -on. |
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