inkwell
→
squid
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | kaġamar (կաղամար) | |
| meaning 1 | (erly Modern Arnemian, XVII c. Venice) inkwell | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | squid | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Orengo, Alessandro (2019), “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 229 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | calmar | |
| meaning 1 | writing utensil box, pencil box | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | squid | |
| reference | Robert historique | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme | calamaio | |
| meaning 1 | inkwell, pencil box | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete) squid | |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | usually 'squid' is calamaro (< calamaio, regional form, since xvi c.) calamaio 'squid' is known from xiii c. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Greek | |
| lexeme | καλαμάρι | |
| meaning 1 | (archaic) inkwell | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | squid | |
| reference | DSMG | |
| comment | ||
Compare Polish kałamarz 'inkpot, inkwell', Romanian călimară 'inkwell', Slovak kalamár 'inkwell', Czech kalamář 'inkwell', Ukrainian каламар (archaic) 'inkwell', Belarusan (archaic) каламар 'inkwell', Hebrew kalmár (קַלְמָר) 'pencil box, pencil case'.
From Medieval Latin calamarium 'writing box, small container used to hold the ink, pens and so on, everything needed for writing' attested in this sense in the first half of the 12th century, Petrus Casinensis [of Monte Cassino], substantivation of the adj. calamarius 'relating to a writing reed' (calamaria theca “box for writing reeds”, Suetonius). Ultimately from Ancient Greek κάλαμος 'reed, cane; reed pen'.