False Friends in Slavic Languages
Polish ‘pies’
The database knows following meanings of the Polish word ‘pies’:
- dog
- male dog (syn.: ‘pies samiec’)
- bastard, swine fig, sl
Semasiological map for ‘*pьsъ’
The database has information related to this term for Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian and Ukrainian.
Polish ‘pies’:
- is a complete false friend in Bulgarian.
- does not have all its Polish meanings in Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Lower Sorbian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Ukrainian and Upper Sorbian.
- has additional meanings in Russian.
- does not have any formally similar counterparts in Belarusian.
- The Polish meaning ‘dog’ is shared by Bosnian pas, Bulgarian пес, Croatian pas, Czech pes, Russian пёс, Serbian пас, Slovak pes, Slovenian pes, Lower Sorbian pjas, Upper Sorbian pos and Ukrainian пес.
- The Polish meaning ‘male dog’ is shared by Russian пёс.
- The Polish meaning ‘bastard, swine fig, sl’ is shared by Ukrainian пес.
- The meaning ‘cur’ (not present in Polish ‘pies’, translated as ‘kundel’) is attested in Bulgarian пес, Bulgarian псе and Russian пёс.
NB: No information yet for Kashubian and Macedonian.
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Lower Sorbian pjas |
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Semasiological Map for *pьsъ
*pьsъ
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Meanings:
‘dog’
‘male dog’
‘cur’
‘bastard, swine fig, sl’
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dog | male dog | cur | bastard, swine fig, sl | |
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Meanings | dog | male dog | cur | bastard, swine fig, sl |