The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius → potato 1 realization Unique

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2

ACCEPTED Realization 1
type		Borrowing
language		Sanskrit
lexeme 1		āluka
lexeme 2		ālū
meaning 1	Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
direction	→
meaning 2	potato
reference		Beskrovnyj 1959
comment		It came to refer to the potato in Hindi after the importation of potatoes to South Asia from the Americas by Europeans, displacing cultivation of the similar elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius. Also Bengali alu, Burmese alu, Sinhalese ala, Punjabi ālū, Rohingya alu, aalu, Pashto alu, Oriya aḷu.