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 | |