beverage, drink poison, venom 5 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
NEW Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Basque
lexeme edabe
meaning 1 beverage, drink
direction
meaning 2 poison
reference Баскско-русский, русско-баскский словарь 1997: 41
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NEW Realization 2
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Latin
language 2 French
lexeme 1 potio
lexeme 2 poison
meaning 1 beverage, drink
direction
meaning 2 poison
reference CNRTL Robert historique
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NEW Realization 3
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Latin
language 2 Galician
lexeme 1 potio
lexeme 2 pezoña
meaning 1 beverage, drink
direction
meaning 2 poison, venom
reference DRAG
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NEW Realization 4
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Latin
language 2 Portuguese
lexeme 1 potio
lexeme 2 peçonha
meaning 1 beverage, drink
direction
meaning 2 poison
reference DPLP
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NEW Realization 5
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Latin
language 2 Spanish
lexeme 1 potio
lexeme 2 ponzoña
meaning 1 beverage, drink
direction
meaning 2 poison
reference DRAE Corominas, Pascual
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Deverbal from ponzoñar, from Vulgar Latin *pōntiōnāre 'to poison', alteration of Latin pōtiōnāre, from pōtiō. Alternatively from Vulgar Latin *pōtiōnea, from Latin pōtiō, and a doublet of Spanish pozón (obsolete) 'poison'