Manx shearwater
→
puffin
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | puffin | |
| Meaning 1 | (now obsolete) the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. [14th–19th c.] | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. [from 17th c.] | |
| Reference | OED | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Jèrriais (Jersey Norman French) | |
| Lexeme 1 | gode | |
| Lexeme 2 | gode à rouoge bé | |
| Meaning 1 | shearwater | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | puffin | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | Welsh | |
| Lexeme | pâl | |
| Meaning 1 | Manx shearwater | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | puffin | |
| Reference | Geiriadur | |
| Comment | Peter Hayman; Rob Hume (2004), Iolo Williams, transl., Llyfr Adar Iolo Williams: Cymru ac Ewrop, Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, page 139 |
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