cholera
→
swearword
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Dutch | |
| lexeme | kolere | |
| meaning 1 | (dated, now somewhat vulgar) cholera | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Netherlands, vulgar) damn! "What the fuck?" | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | The modern Dutch term for the disease is cholera. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hill Mari | |
| lexeme | калер | |
| meaning 1 | cholera | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | swearword | |
| reference | Savatkova 2008 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Meadow Mari | |
| lexeme | калер | |
| meaning 1 | (dated) cholera | – Теве вашке мыланнат ойго перна: калер чер толеш, – манеш кумшо. (М. Шкетан) “Soon grief will come to us: cholera is approaching,” says the third. (M. Shketan) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | swearword | Калер, поп огеш лий ыле гын, закон божийланат пятёрка лиеш ыле. (Яныш Ялкайн) Oh, cholera, if there were no priest, then I would have received a grade of five in Law of god (Yanysh Yalkain) [Russian: Эх, холера, если бы не было попа, то и по закону божьему была бы пятёрка] |
| reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| comment | Modern Meadow Mari холер 'cholera' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | cholera | |
| meaning 1 | cholera | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (mildly vulgar) damn! | |
| reference | WSJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Thai | |
| lexeme | hàa (ห่า) | |
| meaning 1 | cholera | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (vulgar) an exclamation of anger, contempt, disapproval, rejection, disgust, discontent, dismay, surprise, or alarm | |
| reference | SEAlang Thai English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Udmurt | |
| lexeme | холера | |
| meaning 1 | cholera | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | swearword | холера басьтон! for cholera to take you! |
| reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
| comment | Also калера, калер | |