mother
→
wet-nurse
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Dutch | |
| lexeme 1 | moeder | |
| lexeme 2 | zoogmoeder | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | wet-nurse | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | lit. 'suck-mother' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kannada | |
| lexeme | dhātri | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | wet-nurse | |
| reference | Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary: 551 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Old High German | |
| language 2 | German | |
| lexeme 1 | amma | |
| lexeme 2 | Amme | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | wet-nurse; (archaic or regional) nanny, grandmother, mother | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme 1 | mama | |
| lexeme 2 | mamka | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | wet-nurse | |
| reference | WSJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | мама (mama) | |
| lexeme 2 | мамка (mamka) | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete) wet-nurse | Мать не кормила ее грудью, а кормила мамка (Николай Помяловский "Брат и сестра"). Василиса, женщина бывалая, служившая когда-то у господ в мамках, потом в няньках, выражалась деликатно (Чехов "Студент") Her mother did not breastfeed her, but she was fed by a wet-nurse (Nikolai Pomyalovsky, "Brother and Sister"). Vasilisa, an experienced woman who once served in rich house as a wet-nurse, then as a nanny, expressed delicately (Anton Chekhov "Student") |
| reference | BAS: 6, 583 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Ukrainian | |
| lexeme 1 | мама (mama) | |
| lexeme 2 | мамка (mamka) | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | (archaic) wet-nurse | На лавах [у парку] сиділи мамки, няні в широких довгих спідницях і теплих куцинах з майбутніми громадянами на руках (Олесь Досвітній) On the benches [in the park] sat wet-nurses, nannies in wide long skirts and warm hoodies with future citizens in their arms (Oles Dosvitniy) |
| reference | SUM-11 | |
| comment | ||