autumn
→
harvest
4 realizations
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme | fómhar | |
| meaning 1 | autumn | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | harvest | Ní hiad na fir mhóra a bhaineann an fómhar It isn’t the big men who reap the harvest (= best goods come in small parcels) |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| comment | direction according to Buck 512 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | qiū (秋) | |
| meaning 1 | autumn | qiūshān (秋山) mountains in autumn |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | harvest | màiqiū (麦秋) wheat harvest |
| reference | BKRS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Old English | |
| lexeme | hœrfest | |
| meaning 1 | autumn, harvest | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | harvest | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Also the Old High Germ. herbist, Mid. High Germ. herbst, Dutch herfst, Swed. höst. For all of them the principal meaning is that of 'autumn, harvesting season' (Buck 512), but the German word is a cognate for the Greek καρπός 'fruit, harvest', so the direction is not quite clear. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language | Welsh | |
| lexeme | cynhaeaf | |
| meaning 1 | autumn | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | harvest | |
| reference | Buck: 512 | |
| comment | cyn ‘before’ gaeaf ‘winter’, In Modern Welsh 'harvest' (and elfed for 'autumn') | |