cat
→
hare (Lepus)
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme | killing | |
| meaning 1 | kitten | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | young hare, leveret | |
| reference | BDRS | |
| comment | BDRS 328. From Old Norse ketlingr, hypocoristic form ketta ‘cat’. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | kot | |
| meaning 1 | cat | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | hare (Lepus) | |
| reference | Brückner 1927 | |
| comment | From XVI c. in the language of hunters. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | маранга | |
| meaning 1 | cat | ну, маранга, выходи на волю Cat, go out to freedom. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | hare (Lepus) | мужик-от убил марангу This man killed a hare. |
| reference | СРНГ | |
| comment | Dialectal word (Kostroma, Vetluga) with unclear etymology. Attested in XIX c. СРНГ 17, 369 | |