rooster
→
trigger (of a gun)
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Cantonese Chinese | |
| lexeme | gai1 (雞, 鸡) | |
| meaning 1 | rooster | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | trigger (of a gun) | maan1 gai1 (????雞 / ????鸡) to pull the trigger |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Catalan | |
| lexeme 1 | gall | |
| lexeme 2 | gallet | |
| meaning 1 | rooster | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | trigger (of a gun) | |
| reference | DIEC2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Thai | |
| lexeme 1 | gài (ไก่) | |
| lexeme 2 | gai (ไก) | |
| meaning 1 | domesticated fowl, as chicken, turkey, etc. | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | trigger (of a gun) | |
| reference | SEAlang Thai | |
| comment | Also gai-bpʉʉn (ไกปืน) 'trigger' lân-gai (ลั่นไก) 'to pull the trigger' |
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Возможно, в современном языке отсутствует переходное значение 'ударник огнестрельного оружия'. См. переход 1064