Meaning 4.856: the boil

Description: ‘a painful infected swelling under someone’s skin’
Typical context: The boy’s body is covered in boils.
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

:
0.13
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

:
0.80
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

:
0.88
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 obkɬnitːub 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
6 Tarifiyt Berber axənza 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
15 Bezhta hũk’ā 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
26 Ceq Wong knɛ̃r 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
12 Dutch steenpuist 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 0.50
13 English boil 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
3 Gawwada sinitto 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
31 Gurindji karlapa 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 1.00 1.00
4 Hausa màarúurùu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian palapū 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
37 Imbabura Quechua chupu (2) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
27 Indonesian bisul 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
2 Iraqw umaangw 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00
21 Japanese nebuto 根太 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
21 Japanese nōyō 膿瘍 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 0.90 0.50
21 Japanese dekimono 出来物 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
38 Kali'na yuyu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
5 Kanuri kúdù 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
18 Ket boksa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 0.75
18 Ket sibaŋ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 0.75
14 Kildin Saami rūmm’p рӯммьп 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian wrjod 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian swińc 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy vay 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
17 Manange ʂuŋ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
22 Mandarin Chinese jie1zi 疖子 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
22 Mandarin Chinese xiao3nong2ba1 小脓疤 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
41 Mapudungun pitru 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
11 Old High German bul(l)a 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
20 Oroqen ukʃin 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
35 Otomi säsi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.60 1.00
35 Otomi mo'ya 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi mpo'ya 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
8 Romanian bubă 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 1.00 1.00
19 Sakha kuturguya 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 0.50 1.00
36 Saramaccan bói (2) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
9 Selice Romani himló 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole klou 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili jipu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
29 Takia baras (1) 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 0.50 1.00
23 Thai fǐi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
33 Zinacantán Tzotzil chakal 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
24 Vietnamese nhọt 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
25 White Hmong rwj 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
40 Wichí amuku 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 1.00
32 Yaqui purunkulo 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00