Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Belarusan | |
| lexeme | гумар | |
| meaning 1 | mood | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | humor | |
| reference | Slounik.org | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | humor, humour | |
| meaning 1 | mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim | I like not the humour of lying. William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, act II, scene I |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | quality of being amusing, comical, funny | Merry VVhitefoord, farevvel! for thy ſake I admit / That a Scot may have humour, I had almoſt ſaid vvit Oliver Goldsmith, “Postscript”, in Retaliation: A Poem 1774 |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary Harper's Etymonline | |
| comment | The second meaning is recorded 1680s, probably via sense of 'whim, caprice' as determined by state of mind (1560s), which also produced the verb sense of 'indulge (someone's) fancy or disposition'. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme 1 | humeur | |
| lexeme 2 | humour | |
| meaning 1 | mental state, either temperamental or as temporary mood | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | humor | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | The word humor was borrowed from English. The word humeur from Old French humor, humour, borrowed from Latin humor |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | humor | |
| meaning 1 | mood | dobry, doskonały, cudowny, pogodny, różowy, wspaniały, wyśmienity, szampański, świetny, znakomity; beznadziejny, fatalny, kiepski, kwaśny, zły humor |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | humor | błyskotliwy, inteligentny; cierpki, cięty, cyniczny, ironiczny, sarkastyczny, zjadliwy; rubaszny; specyficzny humor |
| reference | WSJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme 1 | umoare | |
| lexeme 2 | umor | |
| meaning 1 | soul disposition; character, temperament | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | inclination to jokes and ironies, hidden under an appearance of seriousness; verbal or written manifestation of this inclination; gaiety, fun | |
| reference | DEX98 | |
| comment | umor from French humour umoare from French humeur |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ukrainian | |
| lexeme | гумор | |
| meaning 1 | mood | Напившись кави, стара Янова впадала звичайно в дуже добрий гумор і ставала дуже говірлива (Наталія Кобринська) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | humor | В їх розмові багато гумору та ще й щиро народного, цікавого, сільського (Нечуй-Левицький); З давніх-давен гумор вважається своєрідною рисою українського народного характеру (О. І. Білецький) |
| reference | SUM-11: 2, 194 | |
| comment | ||
originally 'any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body' from Latin humor 'liquid, fluid'