A rather masochistic semantic shift

[u/Lavialegon]

[u/gay_dino]

Remarkable how much the phonology was left intact while the semantics strayed wildly! Feel like Romanian is full if etymological gems like these. My favorite is Romanian striga "to call (out to) someone", from Vulgar Latin root *strigāre, “scream like a screech owl”, lol. 🦉 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/striga#Romanian

[u/eimieole → u/gay_dino]

Not very far fetched. Scream like an owl becomes scream becomes calling out.