warm
→
homosexual
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme 1 | schwül | |
| Lexeme 2 | schwul | |
| Meaning 1 | warm, stuffy | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | gay, homosexual | |
| Reference | DWDS | |
| Comment | In colloquial speech, the umlautless form schwul takes on the meaning 'homosexual' (c. 1900) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme 1 | warm | |
| Lexeme 2 | warmer Bruder | |
| Meaning 1 | warm | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (obsolete, slang) homosexual | |
| Reference | DWDS | |
| Comment | Robert Beachy (2014) Gay Berlin, Knopf Doubleday: “As early as 1782 one guidebook devoted a short chapter to Berlin's “warm brothers” and the prevalence of male prostitution as an income source for garrisoned soldiers. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | meleg | |
| Meaning 1 | warm | meleg víz warm water |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | homosexual | meleg nő lesbian (lit. homosexual woman) |
| Reference | MEK 1978 | |
| Comment | Possibly, the Hungarian expression has been calqued from German. | |