lunch, midday meal dinner, evening meal 5 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme dinner
meaning 1 midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea)

At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor. (1892, Walter Besant, “In the Office”)

direction
meaning 2 evening meal
reference English Wiktionary
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ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme dîner
meaning 1 (dated, regional) lunch, midday meal

À midi, on entrait au réfectoire pour le dîner, qui était bien frugal, hors dans les grandes fêtes ecclésiastiques, où il offrait un air plus animé et plus abondant. Sainte-Beuve, Volupté,t. 2, 1834, p. 216.

direction
meaning 2 dinner, evening meal

Et dès qu'on sonnait le dîner, j'avais hâte de courir à la salle à manger où la grosse lampe de la suspension, ignorante de Golo et de Barbe-bleue, et qui connaissait mes parents et le bœuf à la casserole, donnait sa lumière de tous les soirs... Proust, Swann,1913, p. 10.

reference CNRTL
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The meaning 'luch' remained in French language of Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Congo, Louisiana.

NEW Realization 3
type Microevolution
language Galician
lexeme xantar
meaning 1 to dinner (afternoon main meal)
direction
meaning 2 to lunch
reference DDDDLG
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https://ilg.usc.gal/ddd/ddd_pescuda.php?lang=en&pescuda=xantar&tipo_busca=lema&acentos=n

Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018

https://ilg.usc.gal/xelmirez/xelmirez.php?pescuda=jantar&&corpus=xelmirez

Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG

http://ilg.usc.gal/TILG/en/search/simple

 Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

http://ilg.usc.gal/tesouro/en/search#search=normal&mode=lema&q=xantar

Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022

https://ilg.usc.gal/ddgm/ddd_pescuda.php?pescuda=jantar&tipo_busca=lema


NEW Realization 4
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Old Galician–Portuguese
language 2 Portuguese
lexeme 1 jantar, jentar
lexeme 2 jantar
meaning 1 lunch, midday meal
direction
meaning 2 to dine
reference Corominas, Pascual
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ACCEPTED Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Spanish
lexeme comida
meaning 1 lunch, midday meal
direction
meaning 2 dinner, evening meal
reference DRAE
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