spring, fountain
→
gland (anatomy)
2 realizations
FAMILY: Altaic
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme 1 | sen (泉) | |
| lexeme 2 | sen (腺) | |
| meaning 1 | spring of water | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | gland (anatomy) | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | Japanese-coined character. Phono-semantic compound: semantic 肉 (“flesh; body”) + phonetic 泉 (せん (sen), “spring”) — a part of the body that produces liquid secretions. Coined by Japanese rangaku scholar Udagawa Genshin in the late 1700s–early 1800s as a translation for Dutch klier |
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| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Korean | |
| lexeme | saem (샘) | |
| meaning 1 | spring, fountain, source of water | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | gland (anatomy) | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||