sickle
→
crescent
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Dutch | |
| Lexeme 1 | sikkel | |
| Lexeme 2 | maansikkel | |
| Meaning 1 | sickle | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crescent | |
| Reference | Mironov 1987 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme 1 | sickle | |
| Lexeme 2 | moonsickle | |
| Meaning 1 | an implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crescent | Long after dark, when the moonsickle was near setting, two wagons full of old acquaintances from around the little water-front drug store, a few workers at the warehouses and some vets of old Company G like Clyde Winston gathered to charivari the new couple before the wedding tour up to Niagara Falls that the newspaper told about. (1947, Mari Sandoz, “Skyuglers”) |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Estonian | |
| Lexeme | sirp | |
| Meaning 1 | sickle | Rukis küpses ja ootas sirpi. Kui rukis küpseks sai, tulid lõikajad sirpidega. Sirbid sihisevad lõikajate peos. The rye ripened and waited for the sickle. When the rye ripened, the reapers came with sickles. Sickles whiz in the hands of the reapers. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crescent | Taevas särab noorkuu sirp. The crescent of the new moon shines in the sky. |
| Reference | EKSS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Finnish | |
| Lexeme | sirppi | |
| Meaning 1 | sickle | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crescent | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Also kuunsirppi |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | falce | |
| Meaning 1 | scythe, sickle | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crescent | |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Malay | |
| Lexeme 1 | sabit | |
| Lexeme 2 | bulan sabit | |
| Meaning 1 | sickle | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crescent | |
| Reference | SEALang Malay | |
| Comment | 'moon sickle' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | серп | |
| Meaning 1 | sickle | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crescent | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||