<plant (biol.)>
→
brown
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme 1 | դարչին (darčʿin) | |
| Lexeme 2 | darčʿnaguyn (դարչնագույն) | |
| Meaning 1 | cinnamon (tree and spice) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | brown | |
| Reference | Galstjan 1984 | |
| Comment | From Persian dârčin 'cinnamon' from Middle Iranian *dār-i-čēnīk 'cinnamon', literally 'Chinese tree' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme 1 | šaganak (շագանակ) | |
| Lexeme 2 | šaganakaguyn (շագանակագույն) | |
| Meaning 1 | chestnut | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | chestnut-coloured, nut-brown | |
| Reference | Galstjan 1984 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | marron | |
| Meaning 1 | chestnut (fruit and tree) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | brown | |
| Reference | Zor'ko et al. 2002 | |
| Comment | From from Byzantine Greek μάραον 'sweet chestnut'. For chestnut more often Italian castagna. Italian marron borrowed into French marron and from French into Spanish marrón, Catalan marró, Galician marrón, Portuguese marrom, Asturian marrón all mean only 'brown'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | miχek | |
| Meaning 1 | cloves | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | brown | михек ранг brown colour |
| Reference | LezgRus: 240 | |
| Comment | The same in Tabassaran, meaning B is formulated as 'dark brown', cf. (TabRus 228). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | корица (korica) | |
| Lexeme 2 | коричневый (koričnevyj) | |
| Meaning 1 | cinnamon | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | brown | |
| Reference | Černyx 1994: 1, 429 | |
| Comment | Accodring to Vasmer, корица (cinnamon) is derived from кора (bark). | |
Russian каштан - каштановый