ink cuttlefish 6 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
NEW Realization 1
type Derivation
language German
lexeme 1 Tinte
lexeme 2 Tintenfish
meaning 1 ink
direction
meaning 2 member of the Coleoidea subclass of cephalopods; more specifically of cuttlefish, but also of species of octopus, squid etc.
reference Duden DWDS
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Attested from the 17th century, as dinten Fisch, equated with Meerspin "sea-spider" in Joseph du Chesne or Duchesne (Josephus Quercetanus), Johan Adolff Ringelstein Diaeteticon polyhistoricum (Straßburg, 1625), p. 218. http://books.google.com/books?id=gTlCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA218&dq=Tintenfisch 

Glossed as synonymous with sepia (cuttlefish) or Sepia in Tilesius, Verzeichnis verschiedener Fische und Krebse des adriatischen Meerbusens (Triest, 1796), p. 45 http://books.google.com/books?id=MKQ-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA45&dq=Tintenfisch and in Samuel Schilling, Ausführliche Naturgeschichte des Thier-, Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs vol. 3 (1839), p. 134. http://books.google.com/books?id=YJ85AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA134&dq=Tintenfisch Later extended to other members of Coleoidea. Glossed as synonymous with Octopus in Globus vol. 61 (1892), p. 195. http://books.google.com/books?id=qKDlAAAAMAAJ&q=Tintenfisch&dq=Tintenfisch&hl=en&ei=w7o1TOXnI4OlOOOGlbEE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA 

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Khmer
lexeme mɨk (មឹក)
meaning 1 ink
direction
meaning 2 cuttlefish
reference SEAlang Khmer
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ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Borrowing
language 1 Old Chinese
language 2 Lao
lexeme 1 *mlɯːɡ (墨)
lexeme 2 mưk (ຫມຶກ)
meaning 1 ink
direction
meaning 2 squid
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ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Thai
lexeme ˈmʉ̀k
meaning 1 ink
direction
meaning 2 cuttlefish
reference Morev 1964: 814
comment From Old Chinese 墨 'ink' (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.mˤək/ (Zhengzhang): /*mlɯːɡ/
NEW Realization 5
type Motivation
language Turkish
lexeme 1 mürekkep
lexeme 2 mürekkepbalığı
meaning 1 ink
direction
meaning 2 cuttlefish
reference Baskakov 1977: 657
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ACCEPTED Realization 6
type Polysemy
language Vietnamese
lexeme mực
meaning 1 ink
direction
meaning 2 squid
reference SEAlang Vietnamese
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