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razor clam
10 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Catalan | |
| lexeme | navalla | |
| meaning 1 | razor, pocketknife | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | razor clam | |
| reference | DIEC2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | jackknife | |
| lexeme 2 | Atlantic jackknife clam | |
| meaning 1 | compact folding knife | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Ensis leei, a large edible marine bivalve mollusc found on the North American Atlantic coast, from Canada to South Carolina | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Also other species that name jackknife clam: Ensis minor, Ensis myrae, Solen viridis, Solen sicarius https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876640 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | razor | |
| lexeme 2 | razor clam | |
| meaning 1 | keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a clam of several species in superfamily Solenoidea, with long curved shells resembling straight razors | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Ensis directus, Ensis arcuatus (Ensis magnus), Siliqua costata, Siliqua patula, Solen strictus |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | couteau | |
| meaning 1 | knife | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | razor clam | |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme 1 | scian + muir | |
| lexeme 2 | scian mhara | |
| meaning 1 | knife; knife-edged instrument; cleaver, chopper + sea | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | razor clam (Ensis arcuatus, now Ensis magnus) | |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | New Latin | |
| lexeme | ensis | |
| meaning 1 | sword | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | razor clam | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | New Latin | |
| lexeme 1 | sica | |
| lexeme 2 | Solen sicarius | |
| meaning 1 | dagger, dirk, poniard | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a species of marine bivalve mollusc | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Gould, A. A. (1850). [descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition]. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 151-156, 169–172, 214-218, 252–256, 275–278, 292–296, 309–312, 343–348., http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870453 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | navaja | |
| meaning 1 | razor, pocketknife | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | razor clam | |
| reference | DRAE | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Valencian | |
| lexeme | navalla | |
| meaning 1 | razor, pocketknife | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | razor clam | |
| reference | Diccionaru Normatiu Valencia | |
| comment | ||
Shell of an Ensis species (Wikiedia Commons / Uwe kils; GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 )