cone (fruit)
→
pineapple
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Catalan | |
| Lexeme | pinya | |
| Meaning 1 | pinecone | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | pineapple | |
| Reference | DIEC2 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Dutch | |
| Lexeme | pijnappel | |
| Meaning 1 | pinecone | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (17th to 19th c., now obsolete) pineapple | |
| Reference | HWNF | |
| Comment | In modern Dutch ananas 'pineapple' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Middle English | |
| Language 2 | English | |
| Lexeme | pineapple | |
| Meaning 1 | pinecone | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | tropical plant, Ananas comosus | |
| Reference | OED | |
| Comment | Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel, the Middle Low German pinappel, the Old High German pīnapful, the Middle High German pīnaphel, and the early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of 'pine cone'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Motivation | |
| Language | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
| Lexeme 1 | боргоцой | |
| Lexeme 2 | хан боргоцой | |
| Meaning 1 | cone (fruit) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | pineapple | |
| Reference | BAMRS 2001-2002 | |
| Comment | lit. cone of a khan. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | piña | |
| Meaning 1 | cone (fruit) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | pineapple | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||