corn crake
—
water rail
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Czech | |
| lexeme | chřástal | |
| meaning 1 | corn crake | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | water rail | |
| reference | SSJČ | |
| comment | chřástal polní 'corn crake', chřástal vodní 'water rail' | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | rail | |
| meaning 1 | corn crake | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | water rail | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | landrail 'corn crake'. From French râle, rale, from Middle French raalle, from Old French rasle, Vulgar Latin *rasculum, from Latin rādere 'to scrape' (Compare Medieval Latin rallus). Named from its harsh cry | |