female calf
→
girl
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | πόρτις | |
| meaning 1 | calf, young heifer | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | metaph., young maiden | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | Lycophron 102. Also πόρις 'girl' |
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| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | heifer | |
| meaning 1 | female calf | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete) a wife; (informal, derogatory, obsolete) a girl or young woman; (informal, derogatory) a large, unattractive, unpleasant woman | Her, whom I shall choose for my heicfar. (1609 December (first performance), Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie) I have half a mind to marry that heifer, tho' wives are bothersome critters when you have too many of them. (1853, T.C. Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws, Vol. II., p. 282) Sally, a buxom human heifer, leaned forward over the cashier's counter, and handed Dapper Dan O'Doul the autographed picture of Ramon Novarro, which she had procured by sending money and stamps. Her blue energetic eyes flashed, and she continued leaning forward with the front of her dress sagging, permitting Dapper Dan to get an eyeful. (1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan) My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers... (2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World) |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Old Irish | |
| lexeme | samaisc | |
| meaning 1 | female calf, heifer | Samaisc ocus bo A heifer and a bull |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | girl | Is cain - olse-som - in t-samaisc tete sechunn (LMU) Fair is the young girl (heifer) that springs past me - he cried. |
| reference | eDIL | |
| comment | Not attested in MI |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | тёлка | |
| meaning 1 | heifer | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | girl (colloq.) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigre | |
| lexeme | ğadaʕ | |
| meaning 1 | two year old heifer | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | girl | |
| reference | ||
| comment | LH 556 | |