Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | odd | |
| meaning 1 | odd (of numbers) | You need to have an odd number of colours, including the background. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange | a very odd way to show gratitude |
| reference | Merriam-Webster LDOCE | |
| comment | From Middle English odde, od 'odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs', from Old Norse oddi 'odd, third or additional number; triangle', lit. 'point of land, angle' (odda-maðr 'third man, odd man who gives the casting vote', odda-tala 'odd number') from oddr 'point of a weapon', from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz 'point'. Cognate to Icelandic oddi 'triangle, point of land, odd number', Swedish udda 'odd', udd 'a point', Danish od 'point of weapon' and odde 'a headland, point', Norwegian Bokmål odde 'a point', 'odd', 'peculiar'; related to Old English ord 'a point' Sense of 'strange, peculiar' first attested 1580s from notion of 'odd one out, unpaired one of three' (attested earlier, c. 1400, as 'singular' in a positive sense of 'renowned, rare, choice'). |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme | udda | |
| meaning 1 | odd; not divisible by 2 | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | odd; which deviates from the norm or from the average | |
| reference | SAOB | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Welsh | |
| lexeme | od | |
| meaning 1 | odd (of numbers) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange | |
| reference | Geiriadur | |
| comment | From Middle English odde. |
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