cat
→
vagina
6 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | cat | |
| meaning 1 | carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) vagina, vulva | 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing: |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | chat | |
| meaning 1 | cat | chat persan a Persian cat |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | cunt (vulg.) | |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | The sense 'cunt' may have appeared because of the homonymic term chas 'needle's eye' [CNRTL] | |
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | киска | |
| meaning 1 | (informal, endearing) kitty, cat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (slang) femail genitalia | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Serbian | |
| language 2 | Russian | |
| lexeme | куна (kuna) | |
| meaning 1 | marten | куна златица, обична (домаћа) куна European pine marten, ordinary (domestic) marten |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vagina | А на лавочку садится, она коленца жмет, А коленцы она жмет, да куну-куну бережет When she sits down on a bench, she pulls together her knees, and she pulls together her knees because she is guarding her private parts |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 614 SRNG: 16/89 | |
| comment | Also in Croatian kuna - 'cat': "kuna bjelica, kuna zlatica" [HJP] - 'Martes foina, Martes martes'. |
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