hobby horse
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hobby
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Afrikaans | |
| lexeme | stokperdjie | |
| meaning 1 | hobby horse (child's toy) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hobby (an activity enjoyed in one's spare time) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Compound of stok 'wooden rod, stick' + perd 'horse' + -jie |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Czech | |
| lexeme | koníček | |
| meaning 1 | hobby horse | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hobby | |
| reference | SSJČ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme | kæphest | |
| meaning 1 | hobby horse | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hobby | |
| reference | DDO | |
| comment | kæp 'stick' + hest 'horse' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | hobby horse | |
| lexeme 2 | hobby | |
| meaning 1 | a child's toy consisting of a (usually wooden or cloth) horse's head mounted on a stick | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | an activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time | |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | Hobby was shortened from hobby-horse, originally an extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby Middle English hoby, hobyn, hobin 'small horse, pony' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Steckenpferd | |
| meaning 1 | hobby horse (child's toy) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hobby | |
| reference | DWDS | |
| comment | Stecken 'wooden rod, staff' + Pferd 'horse' |
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French dada 'sujet favori; idée ou occupation à laquelle on revient sans cesse', Russian конёк