grain, seed
→
maize
12 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Aché | |
| lexeme | wače | |
| meaning 1 | grain, seed | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | IDS | |
| comment | CLICS-3 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Aguaruna | |
| lexeme | šaa | |
| meaning 1 | grain (barley, oats etc) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | IDS | |
| comment | CLICS-3 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | corn | |
| meaning 1 | (Commonwealth English, but not Canada, Australia, or New Zealand) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays | |
| reference | OED Harper's Etymonline | |
| comment | from Middle English corn, from Old English corn 'corn, a grain or seed', from Proto-West Germanic *korn 'grain, cereal' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | Korn | |
| lexeme 2 | Welschkorn | |
| meaning 1 | cereal; corn; grain | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dated or regional) maize | Ich schlug meinem Genossen vor, daß wir auf der Bank bis gegen Mitternacht sitzen bleiben sollten, um dann den Kanal zu verlassen und zuerst die Deckung eines nahen mit Welschkorn bepflanzten Feldes zu suchen. (1911, Carl Schurz, Lebenserinnerungen bis zum Jahre 1852:) |
| reference | DWDS Duden | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hawaiian | |
| lexeme | kūlina | |
| meaning 1 | grain, seed | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | World Loanword Database | |
| comment | CLICS-3 From English corn with both meanings |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme 1 | grán | |
| lexeme 2 | grán buí | |
| meaning 1 | grain (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| comment | 'yellow grain' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme 1 | arbhar | |
| lexeme 2 | arbhar Indiach | |
| meaning 1 | corn, cereals | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| comment | 'Indian corn' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme 1 | grano | |
| lexeme 2 | granoturco | |
| meaning 1 | grain, seed | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Middle Chinese | |
| language 2 | White Hmong (Hmong Daw) | |
| lexeme 1 | kuwk (穀) | |
| lexeme 2 | pobkws | |
| meaning 1 | grain; cereal | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | World Loanword Database | |
| comment | lit. pob-kws 'ball-grain' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | New Latin | |
| lexeme 1 | frumentum | |
| lexeme 2 | frumentum turcicum | |
| meaning 1 | grain, seed | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tsimané (Mosetén, Chimane) | |
| lexeme | tara | |
| meaning 1 | grain (barley, oats etc) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | IDS | |
| comment | CLICS-3 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Welsh | |
| lexeme 1 | grawn | |
| lexeme 2 | indrawn | |
| meaning 1 | grain | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | maize | |
| reference | Geiriadur | |
| comment | ||