The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2
6699		Europe	→	sexually transmitted disease	Open

Comment
Березович 2007, 440-441 Также франц. французские mal florentin 'флорентийская болезнь', польск. łamanie włoskie 'болезнь итальянская', англ. Irish button 'ирландская пуговица', рус. вятск. татарская оспа41

ACCEPTED Realization 1
type		Derivation
language		English
lexeme 1		Gall
lexeme 2		gallican
meaning 1	French
direction	→
meaning 2	syphilis
reference
comment		Also Port. mal gálico, Sp. mal (morbo) gálico, Ital morbo gallico, Pol. Choroba gallicka, gallik

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type		Derivation
language		French
lexeme 1		de Naples
lexeme 2		mal (maladie) de Naples
meaning 1	Neapolitan
direction	→
meaning 2	syphilis
reference
comment		Also the Fr. vérole de Naples, Port. mal de Napoles, Pol. niemoc niepolitanska. These names keep the memories of the first well attested outbreak of syphilis in Europe during the Italian campaign of the French king Charles VIII, especially concerning his capture of Naples in 1495.

ACCEPTED Realization 3
type		Polysemy
language		French
lexeme 1		d’Espagne
lexeme 2		mal d’Espagne
meaning 1	spanish
direction	→
meaning 2	syphilis
reference
comment		Also Port. mal de Castilla, Eng. Spanish pox, Germ. spanische Krankheit, Pol. choroba hispańska. These names reflect the idea that syphilis had been carried in Europe from America after Columbus' expeditions.

ACCEPTED Realization 4
type		Polysemy
language		French
lexeme 1		prussien
lexeme 2		maladie prussienne
meaning 1	Prussian	armée prussienne Prussian army
direction	→
meaning 2	syphilis
reference		CNRTL
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 5
type		Derivation
language		German
lexeme 1		Franzose
lexeme 2		Franzosenkrankheit
meaning 1	French
direction	→
meaning 2	syphilis
reference
comment		die Franzosen haben ‘to have syphilis’, lit. ‘to have the French’.

NEW Realization 6
type		Semantic evolution
language		Hungarian
lexeme		franc
meaning 1	French
direction	→
meaning 2	syphilis
reference		Zaicz 2006: 219
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 7
type		Derivation
language		Italian
lexeme 1		marocchino
lexeme 2		marocchinato
meaning 1	Moroccan
direction	→
meaning 2	syphilis
reference
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 8
type		Polysemy
language		Russian
lexeme		немцы (nemcy)
meaning 1	germans
direction	→
meaning 2	hard chancre	Уж эти немцы, чуть только один сядет, глядишь, уж их десяток Oh, these Germans, one of them sits down, and immediately there are a dozen of them there
reference
comment		сиб. СРНГ 21, 78