tinderbox
→
cigarette lighter
3 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 48999) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Microevolution | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme | fyrtøj | |
| meaning 1 | tinderbox | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | cigarette lighter | |
| reference | DDO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 49001) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | yesquero | |
| meaning 1 | tinderbox | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Latin America) cigarette lighter | |
| reference | DRAE | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 49003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language | Vietnamese | |
| lexeme | hộp quẹt | |
| meaning 1 | tinderbox | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Southern Vietnam) cigarette lighter | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | hộp 'box, can, tin' + quẹt 'to rub' |
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