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rooster
3 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | Περσικός | |
Meaning 1 | Persian | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | cock | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Aristophanes has it Περσικὴ ὄρνις |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | Μῆδος | |
Meaning 1 | resident of Media | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | cock | |
Reference | ||
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Latin | |
Lexeme | gallus | |
Meaning 1 | gall | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | cock | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Possibly gallus 'cock' goes back to *galsos, which is related to the Slav. *golsъ 'voice' |
Журавлев 2005, 485