urine
→
ant
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | piss | |
| lexeme 2 | pissant | |
| meaning 1 | (colloquial) to urinate | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dated) ant | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | From midlle 17th century in sense ‘an ant’, in contemporary English 'an insignificant person' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Hill Mari | |
| lexeme 1 | кыжвӹт | |
| lexeme 2 | кыткы | |
| meaning 1 | urine | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ant | |
| reference | Savatkova 2008 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme 1 | húgy | |
| lexeme 2 | hangya | |
| meaning 1 | urine | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ant | |
| reference | Zaicz 2006 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Komi | |
| lexeme 1 | кудз | |
| lexeme 2 | кодзувкот | |
| meaning 1 | urine | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ant | |
| reference | Beznosikova et al. 2000 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Komi-Permyak | |
| lexeme 1 | кудз | |
| lexeme 2 | кӧдзывкар | |
| meaning 1 | urine | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ant | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://dict.fu-lab.ru/term?tid=1306513 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Meadow Mari | |
| lexeme 1 | кужвӱт | |
| lexeme 2 | кутко | |
| meaning 1 | urine | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ant | |
| reference | Marij jylme muter | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Middle English | |
| lexeme 1 | pisse | |
| lexeme 2 | pissemyre, pismire | |
| meaning 1 | urine | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ant | |
| reference | MED | |
| comment | myre 'ant' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | ссать | |
| lexeme 2 | ссыканец | |
| meaning 1 | (vulgar) to urinate | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dialect) ant | |
| reference | SRNG: 41, 7 | |
| comment | Tver' region |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme 1 | pissa | |
| lexeme 2 | pissmyra | |
| meaning 1 | (colloquial) to urinate | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (colloquial) a stinging ant, especially a red ant (ant of the genus Myrmica) | |
| reference | SAOB | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Udmurt | |
| lexeme 1 | кызь | |
| lexeme 2 | кузьыли | |
| meaning 1 | urine | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ant | |
| reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
| comment | ||
Proto-Uralic *kuńśe 'ant', 'urine; to urinate', 'star'. The noun's meaning of "ant" is likely derived from the meaning "urine". The secretion of formic acid by ants during self-defense is described by the term "urinating." Compare Komi-Permyak кудзавны 'to urinate', 'to emit burning secretions (about ants)'. Or due to the smell of anthills.
Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
Лыткин В. И., Гуляев Е. С. Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка. М. 1970
Ant in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
Urine in Uralonet.