animal
→
deer
7 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Chepang | |
| lexeme | syaʔ | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | deer | |
| reference | STEDT | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Konyak | |
| language 2 | Dimasa | |
| lexeme | mei | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | deer | |
| reference | STEDT | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Manipuri (Meitei) | |
| lexeme | sà | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | deer | |
| reference | STEDT | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mara | |
| lexeme | ³sə | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | deer | |
| reference | STEDT | |
| comment | Lakher |
|
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Newar | |
| language 2 | Lisu | |
| lexeme 1 | la | |
| lexeme 2 | la³ | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | deer | |
| reference | STEDT | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Old English | |
| language 2 | English | |
| lexeme 1 | deor | |
| lexeme 2 | deer | |
| meaning 1 | wild animal, beast, any wild quadruped | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | deer | |
| reference | Harper's Etymonline | |
| comment | in early Middle English also used of ants and fish, from Proto-Germanic *deuzam, the general Germanic word for "animal" (as opposed to man), but often restricted to "wild animal" (source also of Old Frisian diar, Dutch dier, Old Norse dyr, Old High German tior, German Tier "animal," Gothic dius "wild animal" |
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| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tundra Yukaghir | |
| lexeme | талав | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | wild reindeer | |
| reference | Kurilov 2001 | |
| comment | ||