to bite
→
bitter
8 realizations
GROUP: Germanic
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 (ID: 48692) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Dutch | |
| lexeme 1 | bijten | |
| lexeme 2 | bitter | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | HWNF | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 10698) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | bite | |
| lexeme 2 | bitter | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | : 38 | |
| comment | www.etymonline.com | |
| NEW Realization 3 (ID: 48696) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | beißen | |
| lexeme 2 | bitter | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | Kluge 2002 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 (ID: 48698) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme 1 | bita | |
| lexeme 2 | bitur | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | ISLEX | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 (ID: 48695) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Low German | |
| lexeme 1 | bieten | |
| lexeme 2 | bitter | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 (ID: 48693) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Saterland Frisian | |
| lexeme 1 | biete | |
| lexeme 2 | bitter | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Marron C. Fort (2015), “biete”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske |
|
| NEW Realization 7 (ID: 48697) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme 1 | bita | |
| lexeme 2 | bitter | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | SAOB | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 (ID: 48694) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | West Frisian | |
| lexeme 1 | bite | |
| lexeme 2 | bitter | |
| meaning 1 | to bite | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bitter | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?wdb=WFT&actie=article&id=8750 |
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Proto-Germanic *bītaną 'to bite', *bitraz 'bitter', equivalent to *bītaną + *-raz 'adjectival suffix'
Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 66