Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Estonian | |
| lexeme 1 | kael + kirjak | |
| lexeme 2 | kaelkirjak | |
| meaning 1 | neck + spotted cow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | giraffe | |
| reference | EKSS | |
| comment | Coined by Estonian writer, politician and teacher Carl Robert Jakobson in 1867 Carl Robert Jakobson (1867) Kooli Lugemise raamat, volume 1, Tartu: H. Laakmann https://kivike.kirmus.ee/index.php?t=3&oid=0&module=400&op=3&pid=AR-17235-53246-12393 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Khmer | |
| lexeme 1 | kɑɑ (ក) + vɛɛng (វែង) | |
| lexeme 2 | kɑɑ vɛɛng (កវែង) | |
| meaning 1 | neck + long | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | giraffe | |
| reference | SEAlang Khmer | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme 1 | jǐng (頸 / 颈) + cháng (長 / 长) | |
| lexeme 2 | chángjǐnglù (長頸鹿 / 长颈鹿) | |
| meaning 1 | neck + long | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | giraffe | tóu zú rú shòu wěi rú yú qí tóu áng qǐ sì chángjǐnglù (頭足如獸尾如魚其頭昂起似長頸鹿) Its head and limbs are as of a beast; its tail is as of a fish; when its head is lifted up, it resembles a giraffe (1890, 薛福成 [Xue Fucheng], “(四月)二十三日記”, in 《出使英法義比四國日記》, volume 2, page 34 https://ctext.org/library.pl?if=gb&file=22976&page=69 ) |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | lù (鹿 / 鹿) 'deer'. Literally: “long-necked deer”. Appears to be first attested in 萬國地理全集 [1844] by a German Lutheran missionary Karl Gützlaff (1803 – 1851) Chng, Khin Yong (庄钦永) (2012) “晚清新词“牛痘”“袋鼠”“长颈鹿”再溯源”, in 語文建設通訊, volume 10 http://www.huayuqiao.org/DOCC/DOC10100/10112.htm |
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| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Udmurt | |
| lexeme 1 | кузь + чырты | |
| lexeme 2 | кузьчырты | |
| meaning 1 | neck + long | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | giraffe | |
| reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
| comment | ||