Meaning 1.342: the reef

Description: 'a line mass of sharp rocks, often made of coral, near the surface of the sea'
Typical context: The ship was wrecked on a reef.
Semantic field: The physical world
Semantic category: Noun
Borrowed score
Borrowed score

This gives the average borrowed score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following borrowed scores are assigned to words depending on the degree of likelihood of borrowing:

 
score
1. clearly borrowed
1.00
2. probably borrowed
0.75
3. perhaps borrowed
0.50
4. very little evidence for borrowing
0.25
5. no evidence for borrowing
0.00

:
0.24
Age score
Age score

This gives the average age score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following age scores are assigned to words depending on the estaimated age of their age class:

 
score
1. first attested or reconstructed earlier than 1000
1.00
2. earlier than 1500
0.90
3. earlier than 1800
0.80
4. earlier than 1900
0.70
5. earlier than 1950
0.60
6. earlier than 2007
0.50

:
0.82
Simplicity score
Simplicity score

This gives the average simplicity score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following simplicity scores are assigned to words depending on their analyzability:

 
score
1. unanalyzable
1.00
2. semi-analyzable
0.75
3. analyzable
0.50

:
0.80
Counterpart words in the World Loanword Database
Voc. ID Vocabulary Word Form Original Script Borrowed status Borrowed score Age score Simplicity score Source Words
12 Dutch rif 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
13 English reef 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
3 Gawwada pokke 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian papa (1) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
27 Indonesian terumbu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
21 Japanese anshō 暗礁 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 0.50
38 Kali'na -apotɨlɨ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
14 Kildin Saami kuerrk куэррк 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian riff 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
28 Malagasy haran-dranomàsina 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
22 Mandarin Chinese jiao1shi2 礁石 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 0.50
41 Mapudungun lil 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
34 Q'eqchi' pekil ha’ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
8 Romanian stâncă submarină 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.80 0.50
8 Romanian recif 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole resif 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole brizan 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili mwamba (1) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
29 Takia mal 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
23 Thai naewpakaaraŋ แนวปะการัง 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
23 Thai hǐnsǒokhrôok หินโสโครก 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
24 Vietnamese đá ngầm 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
32 Yaqui tetmajau 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 0.50