plant (biol.)
→
gunpowder
7 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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type | Semantic evolution | |
language 1 | Ancient Greek | |
language 2 | Byzantine Greek | |
lexeme | βοτάνη | |
meaning 1 | plant | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | gunpowder | |
reference | ||
comment | Buck 1397 |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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type | Polysemy | |
language | Botlikh | |
lexeme | гьунчIа | |
meaning 1 | grass, plant (biol.) | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | (gun)powder | |
reference | Alekseev, Azaev 2019: 182 | |
comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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type | Cognates | |
language 1 | Church Slavonic | |
language 2 | Russian | |
lexeme 1 | sелїе | |
lexeme 2 | zel'e | |
meaning 1 | plant | Егда же возрастетъ, болѣе всѣхъ sелїй есть… and when it grows up, it [the mustard seed] gets bigger than any other plant (Mathew 13, 32) |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | gunpowder (obs.) | |
reference | ||
comment | Седакова 2005, 126 |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Latvian | |
lexeme 1 | zāle | |
lexeme 2 | bi(s)zāles (pl.) | |
meaning 1 | grass, plant | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | gunpowder | |
reference | ||
comment | The first part is derived from bise 'gun'. The semantic calque from Mid. High Germ. Büssenkrūt Buck 1397 |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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type | Polysemy | |
language | Middle High German | |
lexeme | krūt | |
meaning 1 | plant, herb | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | gunpowder | |
reference | ||
comment | Hence the Germ. Kraut 'grass, top', Dan. krudt 'gunpowder', Swed.krut 'gunpowder', Dutch. Kruit 'gunpowder', kruid 'plant' |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Osetin | |
lexeme 1 | xos | |
lexeme 2 | toppyxos | |
meaning 1 | hay | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | gunpowder | |
reference | ||
comment | Абаев 4, 220-221 |
ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
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type | Polysemy | |
language | Romanian | |
lexeme | iarbă | |
meaning 1 | grass, plant | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | gunpowder | |
reference | DEX98 | |
comment | DEX98 |
Вероятно, трава - > снадобье - > порох.