tortoise, turtle
→
ladybird
2 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Chickasaw | |
| lexeme | loksiꞌ | |
| meaning 1 | tortoise, turtle | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ladybird | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | from Proto-Muskogean *lok¢iCa 'turtle' Booker, Karen. (2005). "Muskogean Historical Phonology." In Hardy, Heather Kay and Scancarelli, Janine (eds.), Native languages of the Southeastern United States, 246-298. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press |
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| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Khoekhoe | |
| lexeme 1 | ǃna̋á {ǃnā} | |
| lexeme 2 | ǃna̋árò {ǃnāro} | |
| meaning 1 | tortoise, turtle | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ladybird beetle | |
| reference | Haacke Khoekhoe 2002: 356 | |
| comment | ǃna̋árò {ǃnāro} = diminutive from "tortoise" with the regular suffix -ro |
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ladybird as "little tortoise"