to shine, glitter <cold steel> 2 realizations
NEW Realization 1
Type Borrowing
Language 1 Breton
Language 2 Gothic
Lexeme 1 mecet, micet
Lexeme 2 meki
Meaning 1 to glitter, to shine, to sparkle
Direction
Meaning 2 sword (Acc.)
Reference
Comment The Celtic word is possibly the source of the Gothic name for the sword and later for the Slavic word меч (Одинцов 1982)
NEW Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Arabic
Lexeme ʔazrạḳ-
Meaning 1 shining, glittering zurḳ-u l-ʕuyūn-i
tith bright, shining eyes
Direction
Meaning 2 spear, arrow min waḳʕ-i ʔazraḳ-a kal-kawkab-i
‘from the fall (hit) of a star like spear’
Reference
Comment Fischer 1965:47-55; the meaning of "shining" in a later period becomes "blue"