caterpillar
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caterpillar track
13 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | tʿrtʿur (թրթուր) | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | t’rt’ur traktor (թրթուր տրակտոր) caterpillar tractor |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Azerbaijani | |
| lexeme | tırtıl | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | pambıq sovkasınım tırtılı cotton bollworm caterpillar |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | traktorun tırtılı tractor caterpillar |
| reference | Azərbaycanca-rusca lüǧet 2006: 2, 544 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Catalan | |
| lexeme | eruga | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | Eruga barrinadora del gerani Geranium borer caterpillar |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | articulated metal belt that is part of the traction system of certain heavy vehicles in order to promote their adhesion to the ground. | |
| reference | DIEC2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Dutch | |
| lexeme | rups | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | |
| reference | ANW | |
| comment | Also rups + band from rups + band 'tyre, track' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | caterpillar | |
| meaning 1 | larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | continuous track in the form of a steel or rubber belt fitted instead of wheels to crawlers, bulldozers, tanks and similar off-road vehicles. | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | chenille | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | endless articulated belt, isolating the wheels of a vehicle from the ground, thus allowing the latter to move on any terrain. | Tracteur à chenilles. caterpillar tractor |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme 1 | hernyó | |
| lexeme 2 | hernyótalp | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | talp 'sole, foot, bottom, mounting'. First attested in 1937 (Zaicz 2006) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Macedonian | |
| lexeme | гасеница | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | |
| reference | DRMJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Meadow Mari | |
| lexeme | гусеница | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | Тӱрлӧ лыве-влакын гусеницышт садын, пакчан, пасун, чодыран, икманаш, – чыла ужар тӱнян пеш осал тушманышт улыт. Caterpillars of various butterflies are the worst enemies of gardens, vegetable gardens, fields, forests - in a word, the whole green world. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | Трактор гусеница писын пӧрдеш, мланде чытырналтеш. (Анатолий Филиппов) Tractor tracks are spinning fast, the ground is shaking |
| reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| comment | From Russian | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | gąsienica | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | gąsienica motyla |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | O północy Kabul został wyrwany z hipnozy ogłuszającym chrzęstem czołgowych gąsienic i wściekłą kanonadą (NKJP: Wojciech Jagielski: Modlitwa o deszcz, 2000); Minikoparki są to maszyny strukturalnie identyczne z koparkami klasycznymi, jednakże ich budowa jest odmienna. Są one wyposażane w gąsienice gumowe, w wielu przypadkach nadwozia tych maszyn są w formie szczątkowej, a osprzęty robocze relatywnie lekkie (NKJP: Andrzej Dudczak: Koparki: teoria i projektowanie, 2000); Pomiędzy zabudowaniami rozlegają się nagle trzaski zapalonego motoru i zza wielkiej stodoły z hurgotem i zgrzytem gąsienic wytacza się na szosę potężny ciągnik (NKJP: Irena Jurgielewiczowa: Ten obcy, 1961) |
| reference | WSJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme | lagarta | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | |
| reference | DPLP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | гусеница | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | |
| reference | Anikin RES: 12, 267 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | oruga | |
| meaning 1 | caterpillar | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | caterpillar track | |
| reference | DRAE | |
| comment | ||
The name came originally from the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Benjamin Holt (1849-1920), one of the founding fathers of Holt Manufacturing Company, in 1911 trademarked "Caterpillar" when he bought a patent from British company Richard Hornsby & Sons. Company photographer Charles Clements was reported to have observed that the tractor crawled like a caterpillar, and Holt seized on the metaphor. "Caterpillar it is. That's the name for it!". Some sources, though, attribute this name to British soldiers who had witnessed trials of the Hornsby tractor in July 1907.