shield
→
shooting target
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Middle English | |
| language 2 | English | |
| lexeme | target | |
| meaning 1 | light shield, often small and round in shape; a targe, buckler | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | shooting target | |
| reference | MED | |
| comment | diminutive of late Old English targe, from Old French targe 'light shield' (12c.), from Frankish *targa 'shield', from Proto-Germanic *targ-. Meaning "round object to be aimed at in shooting" first recorded 1757, originally in archery. | |