animal
↔
insect
8 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Angami | |
| lexeme | kuno | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | insect | |
| reference | Marrison 1967 | |
| comment | CLICS-3 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kannada | |
| lexeme | jaṃtu | |
| meaning 1 | living being, creature, animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | insect, roundworm, hookworm, tapeworm and similar other parasites grown in the belly. | |
| reference | Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary: 400 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Otomi | |
| lexeme | zu'we | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | insect | |
| reference | World Loanword Database | |
| comment | Also 'worm' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Panare | |
| lexeme | nəʔna | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | insect | |
| reference | IDS | |
| comment | CLICS-3 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Rapanui | |
| lexeme | manu | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | insect | |
| reference | Englert | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | lighioană | |
| meaning 1 | bug | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | animal | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Seychellois Creole | |
| lexeme | bebet | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | insect | |
| reference | World Loanword Database | |
| comment | From dialectal French bébête (children, colloquial) 'animal, beastie, critter' from bête 'beast' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tzotzil | |
| lexeme | chon | |
| meaning 1 | animal | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | insect | |
| reference | World Loanword Database | |
| comment | Also pet, snake, bug, from the Proto-Mayan word for ‘snake’ | |