carriage
→
automobile
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | car | |
| Meaning 1 | (dated) a wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus’ car. ( William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 8) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver | She drove her car to the mall. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | carro | |
| Meaning 1 | cart | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (especially in Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and all of Mexico except Central Mexico)) automobile | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | Wagen | |
| Meaning 1 | cart (drawn by a person, by horses, by oxen, etc) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | automobile | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | voiture | |
| Meaning 1 | (historical) car (wheeled vehicle usually pulled by a horse) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | car (motorized vehicle) | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | coche | |
| Meaning 1 | carriage, coach (a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (chiefly Spain, Mexico) car (a wheeled vehicle that moves independently) | Mi coche tiene una avería 'My car has broken down.' |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | char | |
| Meaning 1 | chariot, carriage | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (Acadian French, New Brunswick, Quebec, Louisiana, Cajun French, Missouri) car, auto | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Chukchee | |
| Lexeme | ковлёргоор, ковлёрвоор | |
| Meaning 1 | cart (a simple, open four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for transporting cargo and/or people) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | automobile | |
| Reference | Moll, Inènlikèj 1957: 53 | |
| Comment | Also 'tractor' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | кола (kola) | |
| Meaning 1 | carriage | Grmljavina je tutnjava njegovih kola, kojima se on vozi po nebu i oblacima. ' Thunder is the rumble of his chariot that he drives through the sky and clouds. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | automobile | Četri sata je izjutra, parkiram kola i ulazim u kuću. ' It's four in the morning, I park my car and enter the house |
| Reference | CLARIN.SI | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | kola | |
| Meaning 1 | carriage | borna kola ' battle chariot |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | automobile | luksuzna kola, sportska kola ' luxury car, sports car |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||