pig (Sus scrofa) → wood-louse 18 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Motivation
Language Catalan
Lexeme 1 porquet
Lexeme 2 porquet de Sant Antoni
Meaning 1 piglet
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Derivation
Language Dutch
Lexeme 1 varken
Lexeme 2 varkensbeest
Meaning 1 pig (Sus scrofa)
Direction →
Meaning 2 (Belgium) isopod, woodlouse
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Also muurvarken (Southern Dutch) 'wood-louse', lit. 'wall pig'
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Motivation
Language Dutch
Lexeme 1 zeug
Lexeme 2 kelderzeug
Meaning 1 sow
Direction →
Meaning 2 (Netherlands, mainly used in Gelderland, also Brabant) woodlouse
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

'cellar sow'
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Motivation
Language Dutch
Lexeme 1 mot
Lexeme 2 steenmot
Meaning 1 sow
Direction →
Meaning 2 (Northern, mostly used in the east and north of the Netherlands) woodlouse, isopod
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

'stone sow'
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Derivation
Language English
Lexeme 1 sow
Lexeme 2 sowbug
Meaning 1 female pig
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference OED
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Motivation
Language French
Lexeme 1 cochon
Lexeme 2 cochon de saint Antoine
Meaning 1 pig
Direction →
Meaning 2 (Artois, Flandre, Champagne, Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, Lorraine, Désuet) wood-louse

"De gros crustacés à l'aspect de « cochons de saint Antoine » ( cloportes ), divisés de la tête à la queue en trois lobes, et aussi en trois lobes de la gauche à la droite, et que, pour cette double raison, on nomme des Trilobites, erraient aux alentours des rivages primitifs ; […]." — (L'Enseignement chrétien : revue d’enseignement secondaire, 1928, p. 126)
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Jean-François Michel, Dictionnaire des expressions vicieuses usitées dans un grand nombre de départemens et dans la ci-devant Province de Lorraine, Nancy, 1807.
Henri Adolphe Labourasse, Glossaire abrégé du patois de la Meuse, notamment de celui des Vouthons, chez l'auteur, 1887
Jean Daunay, Parlers de Champagne : pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne), D. Guéniot, 1998.
Jules Joly & Gérard Hayart, Hommes et traditions populaires en Flandre-Artois, Martelle éditions, 1991.
Denise Poulet, Au contact du picard et du flamand: parlers du Calaisis et de l'Audomarois, A.N.R.T. Université de Lille III, 1987.
Colette Dondaine, Trésor étymologique des mots de la Franche-Comté : d'après l'atlas linguistique et ethnographique de la Franche-Comté, Société de linguistique romane, 2002
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Motivation
Language Galician
Lexeme 1 porquiño
Lexeme 2 porquiño de santo Antón
Meaning 1 piglet
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Motivation
Language Jèrriais (Jersey Norman French)
Lexeme 1 trie
Lexeme 2 trie d'bouais
Meaning 1 sow
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

'wood sow'
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Derivation
Language Latin
Lexeme 1 porcellus
Lexeme 2 porcellio
Meaning 1 pig
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood louse
Reference Glare: 1405
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Middle English
Lexeme sowe
Meaning 1 sow; a female pig
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference MED
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 11
Type Derivation
Language New Latin
Lexeme 1 porcus
Lexeme 2 porcello
Meaning 1 pig, especially a young one
Direction →
Meaning 2 genus of woodlice in the family Porcellionidae
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Coined by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille (1762 - 1833) in
Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita : iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata (1804).


Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) — revised and updated version". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A. 654: 341 pp. http://www.oniscidea-catalog.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/Cat_terr_isop.pdf
ACCEPTED Realization 12
Type Motivation
Language Occitan
Lexeme 1 porquet
Lexeme 2 porquet de crota
Meaning 1 pig (Sus scrofa)
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference CNRTL
Comment

'cave piglet'
ACCEPTED Realization 13
Type Derivation
Language Russian
Lexeme 1 свинка
Lexeme 2 мокрица-свинка
Meaning 1 dim. from свинья 'pig'
Direction →
Meaning 2 (rare) wood-louse (Porcellio scaber)
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Вредители сельскохозяйственных культур и лесных насаждений / Под ред. Васильева В. П.. — К.: Урожай, 1974. — Т. II. — С. 108.
ACCEPTED Realization 14
Type Motivation
Language Slovenian
Lexeme prašiček
Meaning 1 pig (Sus scrofa)
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

Zoologija nevretenčarjev. Zbirka Naravoslovni atlasi. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1993, 48
Mršić, Narcis; Novak, Tone (1995). Vzorčenje tal in določanje talnih živali. Ljubljana: Zavod Republike Slovenije za šolstvo. str. 41.
Ralph Buchsbaum, Lorus J. Milne (1971): Nižje živali : Nevretenčarji brez žuželk. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 283.
ACCEPTED Realization 15
Type Derivation
Language Spanish
Lexeme 1 cochino
Lexeme 2 cochinilla
Meaning 1 pig
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference DRAE
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 16
Type Motivation
Language Spanish
Lexeme 1 chanchito
Lexeme 2 chanchito de tierra
Meaning 1 piglet
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference DRAE
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 17
Type Derivation
Language Swedish
Lexeme 1 sugga
Lexeme 2 gråsugga
Meaning 1 sow
Direction →
Meaning 2 wood-louse
Reference SAOB
Comment

'grey sugga'
ACCEPTED Realization 18
Type Motivation
Language Welsh
Lexeme 1 moch
Lexeme 2 moch coed
Meaning 1 pig
Direction →
Meaning 2 (South Wales) woodlice
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment

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