Meaning: fruit

Represented in 151 languages with 41 cognate sets.

Illustrative Context

He picked fruit from the trees.

Target Sense
  • The most generic term for fruit that can be eaten as food, typically fruit of a tree.
  • The most basic term may be collective rather than singular (perhaps with additional morphology to mark a singulative form). Provide whichever is the base form in the language.
  • The literal term for edible fruit. Avoid terms specific to figurative or metaphorical senses, e.g. the fruit(s) of one’s labour.
  • Avoid terms specific to any particular sort of fruit, such as terms specialised for smaller fruit, e.g. berry.

Cognate sets for meaning: fruit

Id <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. form&nbsp;</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. lang.&nbsp;</span> # clades # lexemes loan? pll loan? pll deriv.? ideoph.? loan src lang. src lex cogset. Details

Lexeme Details

Language Lexeme Phonetic Phonemic Cognate set loan? pll loan? Source lang