horse
→
hippopotamus
27 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Estonian | |
| Lexeme 1 | hobu | |
| Lexeme 2 | jõehobu | |
| Meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | 'river horse' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Icelandic | |
| Lexeme 1 | hestur | |
| Lexeme 2 | flóðhestur | |
| Meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| Reference | ISLEX | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 20 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 21 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| Lexeme 1 | faras (فرس) | |
| Lexeme 2 | faras nahr (فرس نهر) | |
| Meaning 1 | horse (Equus caballus) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| Reference | BK: 2 568 Lane: 2367 | |
| Comment | 'river horse'. From the Proto-West-Semitic root *paraš- 'horse' (see SED II No. 182; Kogan 2011: 206). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 22 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 23 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 25 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 26 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme 1 | aygır | |
| Lexeme 2 | su aygırı | |
| Meaning 1 | stallion | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hippopotamus | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 27 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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'