white
→
wheat
22 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Welsh | |
Lexeme 1 | gwynn | |
Lexeme 2 | gwenith | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment | The second part from Welsh nithio, Breton niza 'winnow'. Cf. Old Irish cruithnecht, Irish cruithneacht 'wheat', where the first part has been derived from cruth 'red'. |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Gothic | |
Lexeme 1 | hweits | |
Lexeme 2 | hwaiteis | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment | |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Breton | |
Lexeme 1 | gwenn | |
Lexeme 2 | gwiniz | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Old English | |
Lexeme 1 | hwæte | |
Lexeme 2 | hwīt | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Middle English | |
Lexeme 1 | whit, hwit | |
Lexeme 2 | whete | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | English | |
Lexeme 1 | white | |
Lexeme 2 | wheat | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck Harper's Etymonline | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Old High German | |
Lexeme 1 | wīz | |
Lexeme 2 | weizzi, weize | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Old Norse | |
Lexeme 1 | hvítr | |
Lexeme 2 | hveiti | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Cornish | |
Lexeme 1 | gwynn, gwydn | |
Lexeme 2 | gwaneth | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | English Wiktionary | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Middle High German | |
Lexeme 1 | wīz | |
Lexeme 2 | weizze | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | German | |
Lexeme 1 | weiß | |
Lexeme 2 | Weizen | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Dutch | |
Lexeme 1 | wit | |
Lexeme 2 | weit | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Danish | |
Lexeme 1 | hvid | |
Lexeme 2 | hvede | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Icelandic | |
Lexeme 1 | hvítur | |
Lexeme 2 | hveiti | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Berkov et al. 1962 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Swedish | |
Lexeme 1 | vit | |
Lexeme 2 | vete | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | Dictionary of synonims. Buck: 515 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 16 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Faroese | |
Lexeme 1 | hvítur | |
Lexeme 2 | hveiti | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | <personally collected data> | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 17 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Limburgish | |
Lexeme 1 | wit | |
Lexeme 2 | weit | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | De Limburgse Wiktionair | |
Comment | Mofers dialect |
ACCEPTED Realization 18 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Norwegian | |
Lexeme 1 | kvit | |
Lexeme 2 | kveite | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | <personally collected data> | |
Comment | Nynorsk |
ACCEPTED Realization 19 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Norwegian | |
Lexeme 1 | hvit | |
Lexeme 2 | hvete | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | <personally collected data> | |
Comment | Bokmål |
ACCEPTED Realization 20 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | Luxembourgish | |
Lexeme 1 | wäiss | |
Lexeme 2 | Weess | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | LOD | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 21 | ||
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Type | Internal cognates | |
Language | West Frisian | |
Lexeme 1 | wyt | |
Lexeme 2 | weet | |
Meaning 1 | white | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | <personally collected data> | |
Comment |
NEW Realization 22 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Old French | |
Lexeme | fleuri | |
Meaning 1 | white | La siet li reis ki dulce France tient. ' là est assis le roi qui tient douce France. Sa barbe est blanche et tout fleuri son chef (trad. by Joseph Bédier); There sits the King, that holds Douce France in pow'r; White is his beard, and blossoming-white his crown (trad. by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff) |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | wheat | |
Reference | <personally collected data> | |
Comment |
Wheat bread as a 'white meal'?
Germanic and Celtic (Brittonic) languages.
Proto-Germanic *hwaitja- 'wheat' (from *hwītaz 'white') akin with Latvian kvieši 'wheat', Lithuanian kviečiaĩ, singular kvietỹs 'wheat' (LEV 1992).