good
→
sweets, candy
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 9516 | good | — | sweet (taste) | Open |
| 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'.