spleen (anat.)
↔
honeycomb
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | French | |
| language 2 | Middle Dutch | |
| lexeme | rate | |
| meaning 1 | spleen (anat.) | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | honeycomb | |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | etymology proposed by Diez the Dutchword never means “rate” and that the French one never means “honeycomb”: the change of meaning should therefore have been made at the moment of the borrowing |
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