summer
—
harvest
3 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | θέρος | |
Meaning 1 | summer | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | summerfruits, harvest, crop | |
Reference | LSJ | |
Comment | From the root θερμός 'hot'. The shift in meaning is 'hot season' > 'harvest season' > 'harvest' |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | ὀπώρα | |
Meaning 1 | the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i.e. the last days of July, all Aug., and part of Sept.) | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | fruit, harvest | |
Reference | LSJ | |
Comment | In later times it became the name of a definite season, autumn, but was still used sts. to denote summer (autumn being distd. as φθινόπωρον or μετόπωρον), |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Gothic | |
Lexeme | asans | |
Meaning 1 | summer | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | harvest | |
Reference | ||
Comment |
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