bishop
→
bishop (chess)
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | bishop | |
| meaning 1 | an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme | easpag | |
| meaning 1 | bishop | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bishop (chess) | |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| comment | Metathesized from earlier eascob, from Old Irish epscop, from Latin episcopus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος | |
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme | bishoppu (ビショップ) | |
| meaning 1 | (Catholicism) a bishop | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bishop (chess) | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme | bispo | |
| meaning 1 | bishop | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bishop (chess) | |
| reference | Feerštejn, Starec 2005: 141 | |
| comment | From Old Portuguese bispo, inherited from Latin episcopus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος | |