owl
↔
witch, sorceress
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Asturian | |
| lexeme | curuxa | |
| meaning 1 | barn owl | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mawkish person, witch | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Possibly from Late Latin curusa or of onomatopoetic origin. Cognate with Portuguese coruja 'owl', Leonese curuxa 'owl', Mirandese queruja 'owl' and Spanish coruja, curuja 'owl'. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Latin | |
| language 2 | Italian | |
| lexeme 1 | strix | |
| lexeme 2 | strige | |
| meaning 1 | a kind of owl, regarded as a bird of ill omen, sometimes as a vampire or evil spirit | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | witch | |
| reference | Glare: 1828-1829 | |
| comment | From Ancient Greek στρίξ 'owl'. Also Latin striga 'an evil spirit supposed to howl in the night, vampire'. Spanish estrige 'a kind of owl', Portuguese estrige 'owl' and 'witch', Romanian strigă 'barn owl' and 'evil spirit', Friulian strie 'witch', Ligurian, Lombard stria 'witch' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme | estrige | |
| meaning 1 | owl | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | witch, sorceress | |
| reference | DPLP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | bruja | |
| meaning 1 | owl | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | witch | |
| reference | Narumov 1995 | |
| comment | Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Catalan bruixa, Portuguese bruxa, Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā 'spell, magic' (compare Old Irish bricht 'charm', Old Breton brith 'magic') | |