kidney
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testicle
3 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Niere | |
| meaning 1 | kidney | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete) testicle | |
| reference | DWDS Duden | |
| comment | From Middle High German niere 'kidney; testicle', from Old High German nioro 'kidney; testicle' from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *négʷʰrō. Cognate with Dutch nier, Danish nyre, Swedish njure, and probably English kidney. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | vakku | |
| meaning 1 | kidney | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | testicle | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 3448 | |
| comment | Pkt. vakka < vṛkka. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Vietnamese | |
| lexeme | trái cật | |
| meaning 1 | kidney (as food) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | testicle (of some animals) | |
| reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| comment | ||