snail / slug
→
sluggish, torpid person
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | puž | |
| meaning 1 | snail / slug | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sluggish, torpid person | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Czech | |
| lexeme | šnek | |
| meaning 1 | (colloquial) snail (gastropod) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (colloquial) slow person | |
| reference | SSJČ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | slug | |
| lexeme 2 | sluggish | |
| meaning 1 | any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; slow; having little motion; having no power to move oneself; inert | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | snail | |
| meaning 1 | any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (informal) a slow person; a sluggard. | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme | etana | |
| meaning 1 | snail / slug | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sluggard (slow person) | |
| reference | Kielitoimiston sanakirja | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Komi-Permyak | |
| lexeme | лёль | |
| meaning 1 | snail / slug | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | slow, unkempt person | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://dict.fu-lab.ru/term?tid=1307614 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | пуж (puž) | |
| meaning 1 | snail / slug | Većina puževa ima desno zavijenu ljusku. Most snails have a right-handed shell. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sluggish, torpid person | Za par meseci uspela sam da od sporog puža postanem brza kornjača;) Povećavala sam minutažu, <...> sada trčim i ne ispuštam dušu. In a couple of months, I managed to turn from a slow snail into a fast turtle;) I increased the minutes, <...> now I run and I am not dying. |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1091 CLARIN.SI | |
| comment | ||