cowrie
→
porcelain
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | porcelain | |
| meaning 1 | (rare) cowrie | In the kingdomes of Caiacan and Carazan, certaine sea shels are currant, which some men terme Porcelline (1601, Robert Johnson translating Giovanni Botero as The Trauellers Breuiat, or, An Historicall Description of the Most Famous Kingdomes in the World, p. 104) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | porcelain | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | From Intalian in both meanings | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme | porcellana | |
| meaning 1 | cowrie, name of species of molluscs of the genus Cypraea and their characteristic shiny shell used for ornamental work | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | porcelain | |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | ||