mine (underground tunnel)
→
mine (explosive device)
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme | akan (ական) | |
| Meaning 1 | tunnel (trench concealing an assailant's approach to a fortified place) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mine (explosive device) | |
| Reference | Galstjan 1984 | |
| Comment | Back-formation from Old Armenian y-akan (յ-ական), which was wrongly interpreted as an accusative form of nominative *akan (*ական) but which was in fact the locative case of akn (ակն) 'dug pit'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Dutch | |
| Lexeme | mijn | |
| Meaning 1 | mine (underground tunnel) | Deze mijn is mijn mijn, ga ergens anders delven. This mine is my mine, go excavate somewhere else. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mine (explosive device) | Deze mijn is mijn mijn, ga je ergens anders opblazen. This mine is my mine, go blow yourself up somewhere else. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | mine | |
| Meaning 1 | mine (underground tunnel) | This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa. He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mine (explosive device) | His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | mine | |
| Meaning 1 | mine (underground tunnel) | Le diamant natif, tel qu'il sort des mines, ressemble assez exactement à un morceau terni de gomme arabique The native diamond, as it emerges from the mines, looks quite exactly like a tarnished piece of gum arabic |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mine (explosive device) | Mine antipersonnel; mine antichar; détecteur de mines; poser une mine Antipersonnel mine; anti-tank mine; mine detector; lay a mine |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | Mine | |
| Meaning 1 | mine (underground tunnel) | Kupfermine |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mine (explosive device) | Landmine |
| Reference | Duden | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | mina | |
| Meaning 1 | mine tunnel, and, by extension, underground tunnel dug by the assailants of a fortress to penetrate it, or by the defenders to make a sortie; cavity, artificially opened with special tools, manual or mechanical, in which an explosive charge is placed and detonated by means of a fuse appropriately clogged, in order to split and break down rocks and walls | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | military device essentially consisting of an explosive charge which, triggered by various types of devices, explodes immediately or with a predetermined delay upon the occurrence of certain circumstances | |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| Lexeme | laḡam (لَغَم) | |
| Meaning 1 | mine (underground tunnel) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mine (explosive device) | |
| Reference | Wehr | |
| Comment | From Ancient Greek λαχαίνω 'to dig, to excavate' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | мина | |
| Meaning 1 | (XVIII-XIX c.) excavation made in the rock or under a structure in order to blow it up with an explosive charge | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (from XIX c.) mine (explosive device) | |
| Reference | BAS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | mina | |
| Meaning 1 | mine (excavation from which ore is taken) | mina de oro |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | mine (explosive device) | campo de minas |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
'underground tunnel from which ore or solid minerals are taken' → 'passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives' → 'explosive device'