stone (piece of rock)
→
measure of weight
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | stone | |
| Meaning 1 | stone (piece of rock) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (Britain) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight | Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit. (1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary) |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Irish Gaelic | |
| Lexeme | cloch | |
| Meaning 1 | stone (piece of rock) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | measure of weight | Rud a thomhas ina chlocha; mála ocht gcloch to measure sth. by the stone; eight-stone bag. |
| Reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| Comment | Also cloch mheáchain |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Tagalog | |
| Language 2 | Bikol | |
| Lexeme | bató | |
| Meaning 1 | stone (piece of rock) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | measure of weight | |
| Reference | ACD | |
| Comment | ||