bed
→
sexual partner
13 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme 1 | εὐνή | |
| Lexeme 2 | εὖνῐς | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bedfellow, wife | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme 1 | κοίτη | |
| Lexeme 2 | ἄκοιτις | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | female bedfellow, wife | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | λέχος | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | spouse | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Dutch | |
| Lexeme 1 | bed | |
| Lexeme 2 | bedgenoot | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | sex partner, someone with whom one has sex | Slechte bedgenoten blijven moeilijk hechte echtgenoten Poor sex partners have it hard to remain good spouses |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme 1 | bed | |
| Lexeme 2 | bedfellow | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | one with whom one shares a bed | Therefore, grave mistresses of fate, I pray / That I may never live to see the day / When Zeus takes me for his bedfellow 1922, “Prometheus Bound”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 203 |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Finnish | |
| Lexeme 1 | peti | |
| Lexeme 2 | petikaveri | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bedfellow | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Finnish | |
| Lexeme 1 | vuode | |
| Lexeme 2 | vuodetoveri | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bedfellow | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme 1 | Bett | |
| Lexeme 2 | Bettgenosse, Bettgenossin | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person who shares the bed with another person and has sex with him/her | |
| Reference | Duden | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Manx | |
| Lexeme 1 | lhiabbee | |
| Lexeme 2 | colhiabbagh | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | concubine | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Middle English | |
| Lexeme 1 | bed | |
| Lexeme 2 | bedfelawe | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a close partner, especially one which one cohabits with; a concubine; a secondary female sexual partner | |
| Reference | MED | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Old English | |
| Lexeme 1 | bedd | |
| Lexeme 2 | ġebedda | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | husband or wife | |
| Reference | Bosworth, Toller | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Old Saxon | |
| Lexeme 1 | beddi | |
| Lexeme 2 | gibeddio | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | spouse | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | ложе | |
| Lexeme 2 | наложница | |
| Meaning 1 | bed | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | concubine | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||