Meaning 7.56: the post or pole

Description: = ‘a strong upright piece of wood, metal etc. that is fixed into the ground, especially to support something’
Typical context: a fence post
Semantic field: The house
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

:		 0.39
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

:		 0.94
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 darcʼ дарцI 2. probably borrowed 0.75 0.50 1.00
6 Tarifiyt Berber apilā 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
15 Bezhta hem 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
15 Bezhta t’olba 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
26 Ceq Wong tiaŋ 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
tiang ( Malay )
26 Ceq Wong togoh 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
tugu ( Malay )
12 Dutch post (1) 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
12 Dutch paal 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
13 English post 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
posta ( Latin )
3 Gawwada tukko 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
4 Hausa túrkèe 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian pou 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
39 Hup mɔy túʔ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
37 Imbabura Quechua kaspi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
27 Indonesian tiang 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
2 Iraqw uhmo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00
21 Japanese hashira 柱 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
21 Japanese sao 竿 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
21 Japanese kui 杭/杙/株 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
38 Kali'na wakapu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
5 Kanuri shíwò 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
18 Ket koˀl 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
kol ( Russian )
14 Kildin Saami stuell’p стуэлльп 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian słup 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy tsatokàzo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
22 Mandarin Chinese zhu4 柱 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
41 Mapudungun poste 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
11 Old High German sûl 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
20 Oroqen lata 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
35 Otomi 'ma̲i 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.60 1.00
35 Otomi poste 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.60 1.00
34 Q'eqchi' oqech 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
8 Romanian stâlp 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
8 Romanian proptea 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
19 Sakha ostuolba 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
19 Sakha baɣana 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
36 Saramaccan pósu 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
9 Selice Romani oslopo 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole poto 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole pike (2) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili nguzo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
1 Swahili mhimili 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
1 Swahili mwimo 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
29 Takia kadaŋ 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 0.90 1.00
23 Thai sǎo (1) เสา 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
33 Zinacantán Tzotzil 7oy 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
24 Vietnamese cột trụ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
25 White Hmong tswg 2. probably borrowed 0.75 0.50 1.00
25 White Hmong ncej 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
40 Wichí pusti 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00
32 Yaqui pojte (2) 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00