goat
→
snipe (Gallinago)
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | goat | |
| lexeme 2 | sky-goat | |
| meaning 1 | Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. (uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dialect) common snipe | |
| reference | Desfayes 1998 | |
| comment | god's goat, air-goat, airy-goat |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | kid | |
| lexeme 2 | kid of the air | |
| meaning 1 | young goat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dialect) common snipe | |
| reference | Desfayes 1998 | |
| comment | kid of the spring |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme 1 | vuohi | |
| lexeme 2 | taivaanvuohi | |
| meaning 1 | goat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | snipe (Gallinago) | |
| reference | Kielitoimiston sanakirja | |
| comment | 'sky's goat' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme 1 | chèvre | |
| lexeme 2 | chèvre céleste | |
| meaning 1 | goat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | snipe (Gallinago) | La bécassine apprécie ainsi les marais, les prairies humides et les landes. De mars à juillet, Elle va mériter son surnom de « chèvre céleste » en pratiquant des vols à chevrotement. Elle s’envole en silence puis fait un circuit en volant à 40° les ailes étalées et la queue déployée. Ses rectrices (plumes de la queue) externes vont vibrer produisant un « houhouhouhou » caractéristique. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://www.oiseaux.net/dossiers/patrick.fichter/la.chevre.celeste.html https://www.lpo.fr/decouvrir-la-nature/fiches-especes/fiches-especes/oiseaux/becassine-des-marais |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | Ziege | |
| lexeme 2 | Himmelsziege | |
| meaning 1 | goat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | snipe (Gallinago) | |
| reference | DWDS | |
| comment | ||
the name comes from its bleating sound
Also German (obsolete) Himmelsgeiß ' common curlew (Numenius arquata)' (Brehm, Alfred Edmund: Illustrirtes Thierleben. Bd. 4. Hildburghausen, 1867. 649) from Geiß (regional) 'goat, she-goat'