broom
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comet
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Czech | |
| Lexeme | metla | |
| Meaning 1 | (obsolete) broom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | comet's tail | |
| Reference | Gorjačeva 1997: 27 | |
| Comment | Also 'scourge', 'rod (instrument of corporal punishment)', 'whisk'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Japanese | |
| Lexeme 1 | hōki (箒) | |
| Lexeme 2 | hōkiboshi (箒星) | |
| Meaning 1 | broom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | comet | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme 1 | huì (彗) | |
| Lexeme 2 | huìxīng (彗星) | |
| Meaning 1 | broom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | comet | Hāléi huìxīng (哈雷彗星) Halley's Comet |
| Reference | BKRS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Okinawan | |
| Lexeme 1 | hōchi (箒) | |
| Lexeme 2 | hōchifushi (箒星) | |
| Meaning 1 | broom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | comet | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as はうちぶし. 1896: 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”). In Japanese. http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/992016/79 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
| Lexeme | metla | |
| Meaning 1 | broom, besom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (dialectal) comet | |
| Reference | Gorjačeva 1997: 27 | |
| Comment | The second meaning is dialectal | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Vietnamese | |
| Lexeme 1 | chổi | |
| Lexeme 2 | sao chổi | |
| Meaning 1 | broom | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | comet | |
| Reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| Comment | 'star' + 'broom' | |