bear (Ursus)
→
clumsy
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | medvjed | |
| Meaning 1 | bear (Ursus) | bijeli (sjeverni) medvjed white (northern) bear |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | clumsy | |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Itelmen | |
| Lexeme | эԓэвйуӄ | |
| Meaning 1 | old bear | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | clumsy, slow person (mainly old, but also young) | |
| Reference | PIRS: 336 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | медведь | |
| Meaning 1 | bear (Ursus) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | about a big, strong, but overweight and clumsy, awkward person. | На ногу ведь мне наступил, медведь этакий He stepped on my foot, such a bear |
| Reference | BTS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | медвед (medved) | |
| Meaning 1 | bear (Ursus) | бели (северни, поларни) медвед white (northern, polar) bear |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | clumsy | on je kao medved hodao oko kelije i udarao u njene zidove he walked like a bear around the cell and hit its walls |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 690 CLARIN.SI | |
| Comment | ||