beautiful
+
mother
→
mother-in-law
4 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 (ID: 52098) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Breton | |
| lexeme 1 | kaer + mamm | |
| lexeme 2 | mamm-gaer | |
| meaning 1 | beautiful + mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mother-in-law | "Em cʼhichen e kleven va mamm-gaer o tialaniñ pe o tirocʼhal ; [...]." — (Jarl Priel, An teirgwern Pembroke, Éditions Al Liamm, 1959, page 17) Close by, I could hear my mother-in-law breathing or snoring. |
| reference | Wiktionnaire francophone | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 52100) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Dutch | |
| lexeme 1 | schoon + moeder | |
| lexeme 2 | schoonmoeder | |
| meaning 1 | beautiful + mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mother-in-law | |
| reference | HWNF | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 (ID: 52099) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme 1 | belle + mère | |
| lexeme 2 | belle-mère | |
| meaning 1 | beautiful (fem.) + mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mother-in-law | |
| reference | NFRS CNRTL | |
| comment | From 15 century in meaning 'stepmother', from Medieval Latin bella mater 'stepmother'. Meaning 'mother-in-law' is recorded from 1538 | |
| NEW Realization 4 (ID: 52101) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Jèrriais (Jersey Norman French) | |
| lexeme 1 | belle + méthe | |
| lexeme 2 | belle-méthe | |
| meaning 1 | beautiful (fem.) + mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mother-in-law | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||