child (son or daughter) ↔ sprout 27 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Abui
lexeme bilel
meaning 1 offspring, young child
direction ←
meaning 2 sprout, offshoot
reference Kratochvíl 2008: 38
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Bamu
lexeme mere
meaning 1 child (son or daughter)
direction —
meaning 2 offshoot
reference Carr & Carr 2012: 54
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Polysemy
language Cebuano
lexeme batà
meaning 1 child (son or daughter)
direction —
meaning 2 sprout
reference <personally collected data>
comment

Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español‎ (in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme sucker
meaning 1 sucker
direction →
meaning 2 branch, offshoot
reference
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme rejeton
meaning 1 child, son (colloquial)
direction ↔
meaning 2 shoot, sprout
reference NFRS
comment from rejeter 'to throw off, to throw out, to sprout'
ACCEPTED Realization 6
type Polysemy
language Hawaiian
lexeme keiki
meaning 1 child
direction →
meaning 2 sucker (botany)
reference <personally collected data>
comment

from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *taiti 'child'

English keiki '(horticulture) young plant in orchids that develops on the shoot in place of flower after flowering'
ACCEPTED Realization 7
type Polysemy
language Komi-Permyak
lexeme пиян
meaning 1 child (son or daughter)
direction →
meaning 2 sprout, branch
reference <personally collected data>
comment

https://dict.fu-lab.ru/term?tid=1311449

From пиявны 'to give birth, to bear (about animals)'
ACCEPTED Realization 8
type Polysemy
language Kurux
lexeme khadd
meaning 1 child
direction →
meaning 2 young plant
reference Oraon-English Dictionary: 399
comment Meaning two: "young animal or plant"
ACCEPTED Realization 9
type Polysemy
language Latin
lexeme fetus
meaning 1 that which is born, an offspring (usu. of beasts, occ. of human beings), the young (of an animal), the children (of a parent), the young born at one time, brood, litter; the young while still in the womb
direction →
meaning 2 an offshoot, branch, sucker, sapling, etc., produced by a plant
reference Glare: 695
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10
type Borrowing
language 1 Latin
language 2 Old Welsh
lexeme 1 planta
lexeme 2 plant
meaning 1 plant
direction →
meaning 2 children
reference Buck
comment Also Old Irish cland, clann 'descendants; posterity', later 'clan'
ACCEPTED Realization 11
type Polysemy
language Malagasy
lexeme zánaka
meaning 1 child (son or daughter)
direction →
meaning 2 sprout
reference Korneev 1966: 574
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 12
type Polysemy
language Malak-Malak
lexeme pulk
meaning 1 children
direction —
meaning 2 branch

pulk tyurrptaty


they cut off branches
reference Lindsay et al. 2017: 17
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 13
type Polysemy
language Modern Mon
lexeme kon (ကောန်)
meaning 1 child (son or daughter)
direction →
meaning 2 young shoot of a plant
reference SEAlang Mon
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 14
type Polysemy
language Romanian
lexeme copil
meaning 1 child (dialect. bastard)
direction →
meaning 2 side offspring of a plant
reference DRRS
comment DRRS 1, 550, Seche 2002
ACCEPTED Realization 15
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme отпрыск
meaning 1 child
direction —
meaning 2 off-shoot, sucker (botany)
reference MAS
comment From прыскать ‘to sprout’
ACCEPTED Realization 16
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme пасынок
meaning 1 stepson
direction →
meaning 2 lateral shoot, side shoot, sucker (botany)
reference MAS
comment From па- 'prefix for step- + сын 'son' +‎ -ок diminutive suffix
ACCEPTED Realization 17
type Polysemy
language Sanskrit
lexeme válça
meaning 1 offspring, child
direction —
meaning 2 branch
reference
comment Журавлев 2005, 569 MW 929 'shoot , branch , twig'
ACCEPTED Realization 18
type Polysemy
language Sanskrit
lexeme pota
meaning 1 cub
direction —
meaning 2 offshoot
reference
comment Кочергина 407. MW 650 'a young animal or plant'
ACCEPTED Realization 19
type Polysemy
language Sanskrit
lexeme śíśu (शिशु)
meaning 1 child, infant
direction —
meaning 2 "also applied to young plants"
reference MW
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 20
type Polysemy
language Slovenian
lexeme otròk
meaning 1 child
direction →
meaning 2 offshoot
reference
comment Копечный 1968, 54
ACCEPTED Realization 21
type Polysemy
language Spanish
lexeme retoño
meaning 1 child
direction →
meaning 2 shoot, sprout
reference Narumov 1995
comment from retoñar ‘to sprout’
ACCEPTED Realization 22
type Polysemy
language Spanish
lexeme 1 vástago
lexeme 2 vástago
meaning 1 descendant, offspring
direction ↔
meaning 2 shoot, sprout
reference Narumov 1995
comment from vastaguear 'to sprout'
ACCEPTED Realization 23
type Derivation
language Tamil
lexeme 1 piḷḷai
lexeme 2 teṉṉam-piḷḷai
meaning 1 child
direction —
meaning 2 young coconut tree
reference Tamil lexicon: 2047
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 24
type Polysemy
language Tamil
lexeme muḷai
meaning 1 son
direction —
meaning 2 bamboo
reference Winslow Tamil: 885
comment from the main verbal root muḷai "to grow, sprout"
ACCEPTED Realization 25
type Polysemy
language Telugu
lexeme kunna
meaning 1 child
direction —
meaning 2 sapling, suckling, or young tree
reference Brown Telugu dictionary: 295
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 26
type Polysemy
language Telugu
lexeme pilla
meaning 1 child
direction —
meaning 2 a shoot or young plant
reference Brown Telugu dictionary: 763
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 27
type Polysemy
language Yaqui (Hiaki)
lexeme vasiula
meaning 1 descendent
direction —
meaning 2 shoot, sprout
reference Dictionary Yaqui: 179
comment vaso 'grass (including Bouteloua barbata and other species)'

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