good
→
sweets, candy
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme 1 | god | |
| Lexeme 2 | godter | |
| Meaning 1 | good | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | sweets, candy | |
| Reference | Krymova et al. 2004: 239 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme 1 | bon | |
| Lexeme 2 | bonbon | |
| Meaning 1 | good | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | sweets, candy | Je vous ai apporté des bonbons / Parce que les fleurs c'est périssable / Puis les bonbons c'est tellement bon / Bien que les fleurs soient plus présentables / Surtout quand elles sont en boutons / Mais je vous ai apporté des bonbons ( Jacques Brel “Les bonbons”) I brought you candy / Because flowers are perishable / Then candies are so good / Although the flowers are more presentable / Especially when they are in buds / But I brought you candy |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | First in 1604, Journal de Jean Héroard sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Louis XIII (1601-1628). César Oudin Tesoro de las dos lenguas francesa y española (1607): bon bon «mot d'enfant, quelque chose de bon à manger». Reduplication in baby talk | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | godt | |
| Meaning 1 | neuter singular of god 'good' | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | sweets, candy | |
| Reference | BO | |
| Comment | Also godteri 'sweets, candy' (suffix -eri used to form nouns from verbs and other nouns). Bokmål and Nynorsk. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme 1 | god | |
| Lexeme 2 | godis | |
| Meaning 1 | good | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | sweets, candy | hon berömde valpen och gav den lite godis she praised the puppy and gave it some candy |
| Reference | SAO | |
| Comment | ||
Also English goody 'a small amount of something good to eat'.