to shine, glitter
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<cold steel>
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
NEW Realization 1 | ||
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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 | ||
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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" |