horse
→
hippopotamus
29 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 22330) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme 1 | ἵππος | |
| lexeme 2 | ἱπποπόταμος | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | 'river horse' | |
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 42995) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Burmese | |
| lexeme 1 | mrang: (မြင်း) + re (ရေ) | |
| lexeme 2 | re-mrang: (ရေမြင်း) | |
| meaning 1 | horse + water | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | SEAlang Burmrse | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 22337) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Armenian | |
| lexeme 1 | ji (ձի) | |
| lexeme 2 | getaji (գետաձի) | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 | |
| comment | 'river horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 22358) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme 1 | konj | |
| lexeme 2 | nilski konj | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | bosanski konj; jahaći konj Bosnian horse; riding horse |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | Also vodenkonj konj, vodeni konj | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 22332) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme 1 | hest | |
| lexeme 2 | flodhest | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | DDO | |
| comment | 'river horse' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 22338) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Dutch | |
| lexeme 1 | paard | |
| lexeme 2 | nijlpaard | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 (ID: 22335) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | horse | |
| lexeme 2 | river horse | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dated) hippopotamus | The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox (1808, Thomas Shaw, Travels Or Observations); Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder (1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Winding-Up”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co.); It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids (1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley); Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […] (1909, George Meredith, The Palace of Aklis) |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 (ID: 22342) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Estonian | |
| lexeme 1 | hobu | |
| lexeme 2 | jõehobu | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | EKSS | |
| comment | 'river horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 22354) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Farsi | |
| lexeme 1 | asb (اسب) | |
| lexeme 2 | asb-e âbi (اسب آبی) | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | 'aquatic (blue) horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 (ID: 22343) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme 1 | hepo | |
| lexeme 2 | virtahepo | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | river horse | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 (ID: 22334) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | Pferd | |
| lexeme 2 | Flusspferd | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | DWDS | |
| comment | 'river horse'. Also Nilpferd lit. 'Nile horse'. |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 (ID: 22344) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Hindi | |
| lexeme 1 | ghoṛā (घोड़ा) | |
| lexeme 2 | dariyāī ghoṛā (दरियाई घोड़ा) | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | 'river horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 (ID: 22345) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme 1 | ló | |
| lexeme 2 | víziló | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | 'water horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 (ID: 22346) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme 1 | hestur | |
| lexeme 2 | flóðhestur | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | ISLEX | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 (ID: 22339) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Indonesian | |
| lexeme 1 | kuda | |
| lexeme 2 | kuda nil | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | KBBI | |
| comment | calque of Dutch nijlpaard | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 16 (ID: 22357) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme 1 | each | |
| lexeme 2 | dobhareach | |
| meaning 1 | (archaic) horse | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | 'water horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 17 (ID: 22353) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Latvian | |
| lexeme 1 | zirgs | |
| lexeme 2 | nīlzirgs | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | nīlzirgu dzimtene ir Āfrikas vidiene the hippopotamus homeland is the interior of Africa |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 18 (ID: 22360) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Luxembourgish | |
| lexeme 1 | Päerd | |
| lexeme 2 | Nilpäerd | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | op eiser Rees duerch Afrika hu mir och Nilpäerd gesinn on our trip through Africa we also saw hippos |
| reference | LOD | |
| comment | 'Nile horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 19 (ID: 22350) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Macedonian | |
| lexeme 1 | коњ | |
| lexeme 2 | нилски коњ | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | Нилскиот коњ е лесно препознатлив по телото со облик на буре, огромната уста и заби, кратките набиени нозе и кожата без крзно. The hippopotamus is easily recognized by its barrel-shaped body, huge mouth and teeth, short stocky legs and furless skin. |
| reference | DRMJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 20 (ID: 22341) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme 1 | mǎ (馬, 马) | |
| lexeme 2 | hémǎ (河馬, 河马) | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | 'river horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 21 (ID: 22336) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Middle English | |
| lexeme 1 | hors | |
| lexeme 2 | water hors | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 22 (ID: 22331) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | faras- (فرس) | |
| lexeme 2 | faras-u nahr-i (فرس نهر) | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | faras-u r-rihān-i running horse |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | faras-u n-nahr-i (faras-u l-baḥr-i) hippopotamus (lit. the horse of river or sea) |
| reference | BK: II 568 Lane: 2367 Baranov: II 589 | |
| comment | From the Proto-West-Semitic root *paraš- 'horse' (see SED II No. 182; Kogan 2011: 206). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 23 (ID: 22333) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Norwegian | |
| lexeme 1 | hest | |
| lexeme 2 | flodhest | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | BNO | |
| comment | 'river horse', Bokmål and Nynorsk | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 24 (ID: 22359) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme 1 | коњ | |
| lexeme 2 | нилски коњ | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | Нилски коњи су друштвене животиње и живе у групама до 40 јединки. Hippos are social animals and live in groups of up to 40 individuals. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 25 (ID: 42994) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Shan | |
| lexeme 1 | mâ̰a (မႃႉ) + nâ̰m (ၼမ်ႉ) | |
| lexeme 2 | mâ̰a nâ̰m (မႃႉၼမ်ႉ) | |
| meaning 1 | horse + water | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | SEAlang Shan | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 26 (ID: 22351) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Slovenian | |
| lexeme 1 | konj | |
| lexeme 2 | povodni konj | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 27 (ID: 22352) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme 1 | häst | |
| lexeme 2 | flodhäst | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | SAOB | |
| comment | 'river horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 28 (ID: 22355) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme 1 | aygır | |
| lexeme 2 | su aygırı | |
| meaning 1 | stallion | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 793 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 29 (ID: 22356) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Welsh | |
| lexeme 1 | march | |
| lexeme 2 | afonfarch | |
| meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | 'river stallion', also dyfrfarch 'water stallion' | |
'river horse', 'water horse', 'Nile horse', 'river stallion', 'water stallion'