coal
→
money
4 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | coal | |
| meaning 1 | black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (slang, obsolete) money | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | late 16th c. to early 20th c. Green’s Dictionary of Slang https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/6y4lx4y |
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| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Kohle | |
| meaning 1 | coal | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (colloquial) money | |
| reference | DWDS | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Maltese | |
| lexeme | faħam | |
| meaning 1 | coal | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (slang) money | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Romani | |
| language 2 | English | |
| lexeme 1 | angar | |
| lexeme 2 | wonga | |
| meaning 1 | coal | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (slang) money | I don't mean to be difficult, I said to the madame in reception, but I'm paying a lot of wonga, so these women of yours should be able to manage a bit of service, shouldn't they, I said, and then I was given a voucher. (2009, K. O. Dahl, The Fourth Man: A Thriller, Minotaur Books, page 59) |
| reference | English Wiktionary OED | |
| comment | Dictionary.com https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/wonga |
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