cucumber
↔
melon (Cucumis melo)
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme 1 | krastavac | |
| lexeme 2 | krastavica | |
| meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a species of a melon | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Medieval Latin | |
| language 2 | Latin | |
| lexeme | cucumis | |
| meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | Armenian cucumber, snake melon, vegetable melon, Cucumis melo subsp. melo var. flexuosus | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Janick, Jules; Paris, Harry S.; Parrish, David C. (2007), “The Cucurbits of Mediterranean Antiquity: Identification of Taxa from Ancient Images and Descriptions”, in Annals of Botany, volume 100, issue 7, pages 1441–1457 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759226/ |
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| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Modern Hebrew | |
| language 2 | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme 1 | m'laf'fon (מְלָפְפוֹן) | |
| lexeme 2 | μηλοπέπων | |
| meaning 1 | (Mishnaic Hebrew) Armenian cucumber, vegetable melon; (Modern Israeli Hebrew) cucumber | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | (Koine) melon, Cucumis melo | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons p. 775 |
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| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Syncretism | |
| language | Thai | |
| lexeme | dtɛɛng (แตง) | |
| meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | melon | |
| reference | SEAlang Thai | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Yuwaalayaay | |
| lexeme | baaya | |
| meaning 1 | cucumber | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | melon (Cucumis melo) | |
| reference | Ash et al. 2003: 27 | |
| comment | ||