comb
→
honeycomb
4 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | comb | |
| meaning 1 | toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey | The combs of the wild bees are found on overhanging precipices, and the only means by which they can be reached is to descend from above on narrow cane ladders just wide enough for a man’s foot, and often 300 feet to 400 feet long. (1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 9) |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme | cíor | |
| meaning 1 | comb | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | honeycomb | |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Scots | |
| lexeme | came | |
| meaning 1 | comb | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | honeycomb | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/came The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, Aitken et al., editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002 From Northern Middle English cambe 'comb' |
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