bee
→
bumblebee
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | bee | |
| lexeme 2 | bumblebee | |
| meaning 1 | flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus. | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Syncretism | |
| language | Komi-Permyak | |
| lexeme | малямуш | |
| meaning 1 | bee | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | bumblebee | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://dict.fu-lab.ru/term?tid=1308266 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Koryak | |
| lexeme | тылгыёӄэ | |
| meaning 1 | bee | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | bumblebee | |
| reference | Žukova 1990: 80 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Middle English | |
| lexeme 1 | be | |
| lexeme 2 | humbul-be | |
| meaning 1 | bee | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bumblebee | |
| reference | MED | |
| comment | ||