#9493 camel giraffe 10 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Derivation
language Ancient Greek
lexeme 1 κάμηλος + πάρδαλις
lexeme 2 καμηλοπάρδαλις
meaning 1 camel + leopard
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference LSJ
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Beekes R.  Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010, page 630

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Derivation
language Burmese
lexeme 1 ku.la:ut (ကုလားအုတ် ) + sac (သစ်)
lexeme 2 sacku.la:ut (သစ်ကုလားအုတ်)
meaning 1 camel
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference SEAlang Burmrse
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ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Derivation
language Classical Armenian
lexeme 1 ułt (ուղտ) + inj (ինձ)
lexeme 2 ənjułt (ընձուղտ)
meaning 1 camel + leopard
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 Awetikʿean et al. 1836-37
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ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Derivation
language Farsi
lexeme 1 šotor (شتر) + palang (پلنگ)
lexeme 2 šotorgâvpalang ()
meaning 1 camel + leopard
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference <personally collected data>
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gâv (گاو) 'cow'

Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary, Tehran: University of Tehran Press https://dehkhoda.ut.ac.ir/en/dictionary/%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF

Borrowed to Classical Armenian štrpałang (շտրպաղանգ ) Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary], volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 544b

ACCEPTED Realization 5
type Syncretism
language Khoekhoe
lexeme ǃnȁí (ǃnai)
meaning 1 giraffe
direction
meaning 2 camel
reference Haacke Khoekhoe 2002: 357
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ACCEPTED Realization 6
type Derivation
language Latin
lexeme 1 camelus + pardus
lexeme 2 camelopardus
meaning 1 camel + male leopard
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference Lewis, Short
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Descendants are Italian camelopardo, French chameaupard, English camelopard, Swedish kamelopard etc.
Dutch kameelpaard and Afrikaans: kameelperd were reanalyzed as kameel 'camel' +‎ perd 'horse' through folk etymology.

ACCEPTED Realization 7
type Derivation
language Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
lexeme 1 ʾwštl (uštar) + plng (palang)
lexeme 2 ʾwštlgʾwplng (uštar-gāw-palang)
meaning 1 camel + leopard
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference MacKenzie 1971: 85
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Middle component is gʾw (gāw) 'ox, cow, bull'

ACCEPTED Realization 8
type Syncretism
language Naro
lexeme nqabè (!nabè)
meaning 1 giraffe


direction
meaning 2 camel
reference Visser 2001: 51
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 1. giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) 2. camel 

ACCEPTED Realization 9
type Derivation
language Syriac
lexeme 1 gəmal (ܓܡܠ) + nemrā (ܢܡܪܐ)
lexeme 2 ɡmal-nemrā (ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ)
meaning 1 camel of + the leopard
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference CAL
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http://cal.huc.edu/oneentry.php?lemma=gml%40nmr%29+N&cits=all

Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 72a
Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 241b

ACCEPTED Realization 10
type Derivation
language Tamil
lexeme 1 oṭṭakam (ஒட்டகம்) + civiṅki (சிவிங்கி )
lexeme 2 oṭṭakacciviṅki (ஒட்டகச்சிவிங்கி)
meaning 1 camel + caracal
direction
meaning 2 giraffe
reference Ramakrishnan 1992
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https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/crea_query.py?qs=%E0%AE%92%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF&searchhws=yes