cucumber
→
vegetable marrow
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | qiṯṯāʔ, quṯṯāʔ (قِثَّاء , قُثَّاء) | |
| lexeme 2 | kūsā (كُوسَا) | |
| meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | vegetable marrow | |
| reference | Lane Wehr: 1102 | |
| comment | Aro, Jussi (1963) “Gemeinsemitische Ackerbauterminologie”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 113, pages 478–479 Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 203 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | cucumber | |
| lexeme 2 | Armenian Cucumber | |
| meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, a long, slender variety of muskmelon which resembles a cucumber in taste and inner appearance | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | Also snake cucumber, yard-long cucumber |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Lithuanian | |
| lexeme 1 | agur˜kas | |
| lexeme 2 | aguro˜tis | |
| meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vegetable marrow | |
| reference | ||
| comment | LRŽ 19 | |