bird
→
epilepsy
4 realizations
GROUP: Malayo-Polynesian
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 45168) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | 'Āre'āre | |
| lexeme 1 | manu | |
| lexeme 2 | manu susuru | |
| meaning 1 | bird | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | epilepsy | |
| reference | Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 5, 356 | |
| comment | susuru ‘?’ |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 45167) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Arosi | |
| lexeme | manu | |
| meaning 1 | bird | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | epilepsy | |
| reference | Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 5, 356 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 45170) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Fijian | |
| lexeme 1 | manu + soni | |
| lexeme 2 | manumanu-ni-soni | |
| meaning 1 | bird + vine used to trap bats, which struggle to get free | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | epilepsy | |
| reference | Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 5, 356 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 45169) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Tongan | |
| lexeme 1 | moa + mahaki | |
| lexeme 2 | mahaki-moa | |
| meaning 1 | fowl + illness | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | epilepsy | |
| reference | Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 5, 356 | |
| comment | ||
The convulsions of an epileptic fit were seen as similar to the sudden movements of some birds. For instance, Sa’a has a term kokoko which refers to ‘a bird, the megapode’ and also to ‘a disease and its convulsions, so called in allusion to the startled movements of the megapode when discovered’. (Ross, Pawley, Osmond 5, 356)