honey
→
dear, darling
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | honey | |
| meaning 1 | sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | dear, darling | Honey, I'm home. |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | mel | |
| meaning 1 | honey | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | dear, darling | cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium (Plautus, Bacchides 18:) My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight. |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||