[Transformation of the names of certain herbs by linguistic transfer - colchicum, wormseed, soybean, nandina and wijnruit].
Five examples of transformation of the names of certain herbal medicines by transfer from one language to another are presented: (1) to meadow saffron (colchicum) from Medea's saffron, (2) from semenzina to semen cinae or semen China, (3) from the Japanese condiment sho-yu to soy and soybeans, (4) from the Japanese plant nanten to the genus Nandina, and (5) from the Dutch term wijnruit (wine-ruta) to hen-ruda in Japanese. In most cases, the transformation underwent phonetically and resulted in a departure from the original meaning.
Uchibayashi
Masao
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D002681:China; D007564:Japan; D009426:Netherlands; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000145:classification*; D009626:Terminology as Topic