Meaning 3.663: the whale

Semantic field: Animals
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

:		 0.43
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

:		 0.85
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

:		 0.87
Counterpart words in the World Loanword Database
Voc. ID Vocabulary Word Form Original Script Borrowed status Borrowed score Age score Simplicity score Source Words
6 Tarifiyt Berber ƀayana 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
15 Bezhta kit 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00
kit ( Russian )
12 Dutch walvis 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.75
13 English whale 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian koholā 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
27 Indonesian (ikan) paus 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
21 Japanese kujira 鯨 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
14 Kildin Saami vāl’es’ ва̄лесь 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian wjelryba 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 0.50
10 Lower Sorbian walryba 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
28 Malagasy tròzona 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
22 Mandarin Chinese jing1yu2 鲸鱼, 鯨魚 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
41 Mapudungun yenü 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
11 Old High German (h)wal 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
35 Otomi bayenä 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
34 Q'eqchi' b’ayeen 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00
8 Romanian balenă 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
36 Saramaccan laláo 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 0.90 1.00
9 Selice Romani velriba 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole balenn 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili nyangumi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
29 Takia maoy 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 0.50 1.00
23 Thai waan (1) วาฬ 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
24 Vietnamese cá voi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
32 Yaqui bujteme 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 0.50