fat (adj., of a person)
→
penguin
6 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 49654) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Czech | |
| lexeme 1 | tučný | |
| lexeme 2 | tučňák | |
| meaning 1 | fatty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | penguin | |
| reference | SSJČ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 49649) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Dutch | |
| lexeme 1 | vet + gans | |
| lexeme 2 | vetgans | |
| meaning 1 | fat + goose | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (uncommon) penguin | Deeze ijsvelden ſtaan als rotzen in de baaren vaſt: en in deeze grimmige koude leeven nog ſtormvogels, Albatrosſen en Vet-Ganzen (1786, Henderik Sander (i.e. Heinrich Sander), Van het groote en schoone in de natuur, vol. 1, tr. from High German by J. v. M., Az., publ. by G. T. van Passenburg en Zoon, page 114) These ice fields stand fast like rocks in the waves, and in this forbidding cold still live petrels, albatrosses and penguins. |
| reference | HWNF | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 49650) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | Fett + Gans. | |
| lexeme 2 | Fettgans | |
| meaning 1 | fat + goose | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete) penguin | |
| reference | HWNF DWB (Der Grimm) DWDS | |
| comment | DWB "aptenodytes, eine art wilder gänse" Aptenodytes patagonicus = King penguin Aptenodytes forsteri = Emperor penguin |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 49651) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme 1 | mör + gæs | |
| lexeme 2 | mörgæs | |
| meaning 1 | suet + goose | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | penguin | Mörgæsir eru sætar. Penguins are cute. |
| reference | ISLEX English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 49652) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Indonesian | |
| lexeme 1 | gempal + angsa | |
| lexeme 2 | angsa gempal | |
| meaning 1 | robust, chubby | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | penguin | |
| reference | KBBI | |
| comment | calque of Dutch vetgans |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 49653) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Slovak | |
| lexeme 1 | tučný | |
| lexeme 2 | tučniak | |
| meaning 1 | fatty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | penguin | |
| reference | KSSJ | |
| comment | ||
Based on the supposed derivation of penguin from Latin pinguis 'fat'