firewood
→
fuel
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kazakh | |
| Lexeme | отын | |
| Meaning 1 | firewood | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | fuel | |
| Reference | Syzdykova, Xusain (eds.) 2001 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khmer | |
| Lexeme | saʼmɨn (សមិន្ធន៍) | |
| Meaning 1 | firewood | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | fuel | |
| Reference | SEAlang Khmer | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Middle English | |
| Language 2 | English | |
| Lexeme | feuē̆l, fewell | |
| Meaning 1 | items to be burnt, firewood | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | fuel | |
| Reference | MED | |
| Comment | Borrowed from Old French feuaille, fouaille 'firewood' |
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