Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | amber | |
| meaning 1 | (obsolete) ambergris | Ambre is hote and drye […] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale. (1526, The Grete Herball) The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine. (1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344) Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents (1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 18 Apr 1717) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | amber | |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Middle Persian (Pahlavi) | |
| language 2 | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme 1 | ʾmbl (ambar) | |
| lexeme 2 | inbár (עַנְבָּר) | |
| meaning 1 | ambergris | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | amber | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Syncretism | |
| language | Old French | |
| lexeme 1 | ambre (gris) | |
| lexeme 2 | ambre (jaune) | |
| meaning 1 | ambergris | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | amber | |
| reference | CNRTL Robert historique | |
| comment | from Arabic ʕanbar (عَنْبَر) 'ambergris', from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar) 'ambergris' (MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 8) |
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| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | ambră | |
| meaning 1 | ambergris | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | amber | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | From French |
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| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Syriac | |
| lexeme | ʾambar (ܐܡܒܪ) | |
| meaning 1 | ambergris | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | amber | |
| reference | CAL Payne Smith: 19a, 416b | |
| comment | From Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar) 'ambergris' http://www.dukhrana.com/lexicon/PayneSmith/index.php?p=19&l=0 |
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| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Thai | |
| lexeme 1 | am-pan-kîi-bplaa (อำพันขี้ปลา) | |
| lexeme 2 | am-pan (อำพัน ) | |
| meaning 1 | ambergris | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | amber | |
| reference | SEAlang Thai | |
| comment | kîi (ขี้) 'faeces' bplaa (ปลา) 'fish' am-pan (อำพัน ) is a semi-learned borrowing from Classical Persian 'anbar (عنبر), from Arabic ʕanbar (عَنْبَر) 'ambergris' |
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| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Welsh | |
| lexeme | ambr, amber | |
| meaning 1 | ambergris | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | amber | |
| reference | Geiriadur | |
| comment | ||