Meaning 9.61: to forge

Description: 'make something from a piece of metal by heating the metal and shaping it'
Typical context: From a piece of scrap iron, the blacksmith forged a sword blade.
Semantic field: Basic actions and technology
Semantic category: Verb
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

:		 0.09
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

:		 0.73
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 aːtas 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
6 Tarifiyt Berber gg řqařəƀ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
12 Dutch smeden 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.75
13 English forge 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
4 Hausa ƙéeràa 4. very little evidence for borrowing 0.25 1.00 1.00
30 Hawaiian ku`i hao 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 0.50
27 Indonesian menempa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
2 Iraqw kwahhuut 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00
21 Japanese kitaeru 鍛える 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
5 Kanuri kàrò 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
18 Ket ejtet 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 0.50
14 Kildin Saami tāgke та̄гкэ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
10 Lower Sorbian kowaś 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
28 Malagasy manèfy 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
22 Mandarin Chinese chui2da3 锤打 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
11 Old High German smidôn 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
35 Otomi nt'uspi nts'ät'u̲bo̲jä 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi pu̲'mi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
8 Romanian a făuri 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
8 Romanian a forja 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 0.50
19 Sakha taptay 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
7 Seychelles Creole bat feray 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 0.50
7 Seychelles Creole forze 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili -fua 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
29 Takia mari 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
23 Thai tiilèk ตีเหล็ก 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
24 Vietnamese rèn 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 1.00
25 White Hmong ntaus hlau 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
32 Yaqui joona 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00