shoal troop (of fishes) 7 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Catalan
lexeme banc
meaning 1 shoal
direction
meaning 2 troop (of animals)
reference DIEC2
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SUSPENDED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Dutch
lexeme school
meaning 1 shoal
direction
meaning 2 large group of fish or other sea creatures of the same species swimming together Enorme scholen makreel willen de baai inzwemmen tot de voorste zich realiseren dat daar geen uitweg naar open zee is, omkeren en zo op hun aanzwemmende soortgenoten botsen. (Buiten is het maandag, J. Bernlef, 2003); Scholen makreel, platvissen of garnalen, krabben of kreeften en zelfs kleine of grote kwallen zijn prachtige ontmoetingen onder water. (http://www.torpedo.be/ditjesendatjes.htm)
Huge schools of mackerel want to swim into the bay until the first ones realize that there is no way out to the open sea, turn around and collide with their swimming counterparts; Schools of mackerel, flatfish or shrimp, crabs or lobsters and even small or large jellyfish are wonderful underwater encounters.
reference ANW
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ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme shoal
meaning 1 bank, sand bank
direction
meaning 2 troop (of fishes)
reference <personally collected data>
comment shoal 'bank' from Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Shoal 'group of fish' presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”). Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”).
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme banc
meaning 1 shoal banc de sable
sandbank
direction
meaning 2 troop (of fishes) banc de harengs
troop of herrings
reference CNRTL
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ACCEPTED Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Italian
lexeme banco
meaning 1 shallow sandy or gravelly in the sea or rivers
direction
meaning 2 very large quantity of anchovies or other fish that swim in groups
reference Vocabolario Treccani
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ACCEPTED Realization 6
type Polysemy
language Romanian
lexeme banc
meaning 1 sandbank banc de nisip
sandbank
direction
meaning 2 flock (fish) banc de scrumbii
school of herring
reference DEX98
comment DRRS 1, 194, DEX98
ACCEPTED Realization 7
type Polysemy
language Spanish
lexeme banco
meaning 1 shoal
direction
meaning 2 group of fish that go together in large numbers
reference DRAE
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