Meaning 4.843: the cold

Description: ‘the common cold’
Typical context: He caught a cold after swimming in the lake at night.
Semantic field: The body
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

:
0.19
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

:
0.79
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

:
0.85
Counterpart words in the World Loanword Database
Voc. ID Vocabulary Word Form Original Script Borrowed status Borrowed score Age score Simplicity score Source Words
16 Archi χˤekul 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
6 Tarifiyt Berber asəmmiđ’ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
15 Bezhta ɣeya-q’ämis 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
26 Ceq Wong hawar 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
hawar ( Malay )
12 Dutch verkoudheid 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
13 English cold 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
3 Gawwada ʔošonko 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
31 Gurindji kulyurr 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
4 Hausa múr̃àa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian anu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
39 Hup tũhũ´ʔ ni- 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
37 Imbabura Quechua rumas 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
27 Indonesian flu 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
flu ( English )
27 Indonesian pilek 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
27 Indonesian selesma, selésma 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
27 Indonesian masuk angin 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 0.90 0.50
2 Iraqw xuumpa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00
21 Japanese kaze 風 (wind) 風邪(cold). The latter is some sort of ateji. 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
38 Kali'na otono 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
5 Kanuri kə̀lâtə̀rə̀m 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
18 Ket qaqtɯm 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 1.00
14 Kildin Saami kēbp кэ̄бп 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian pśezymnjenje 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy sèry 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
17 Manange tsʰu-pʌ ʃe 1mo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.75
22 Mandarin Chinese gan3mao4 感冒 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
41 Mapudungun chafo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
41 Mapudungun rüle 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
11 Old High German dampfo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
35 Otomi nthuñu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.60 1.00
35 Otomi thehe 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.60 1.00
34 Q'eqchi' jolomb'ej 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.75
34 Q'eqchi' oj 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
8 Romanian răceală 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
19 Sakha tɨmnɨyɨː 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
36 Saramaccan katáu 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
9 Selice Romani nátha 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole lerim 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili mafua 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
29 Takia kfek 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 0.90 1.00
23 Thai wàt หวัด 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
33 Zinacantán Tzotzil simil 7obal 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
24 Vietnamese cảm 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 1.00
25 White Hmong khaub thuas 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
40 Wichí chelhtaj 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.80 1.00
32 Yaqui chomko’okoa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 0.50