donkey
→
siege engine
3 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Akkadian | |
Lexeme | imēru | |
Meaning 1 | donkey | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | a mechanical device of a ship; a part of the battering ram | |
Reference | CAD: i 110, 114-115 | |
Comment | See SED II No. 98; also No. 37. |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Latin | |
Lexeme | onager | |
Meaning 1 | wild donkey | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | stone fougasse | |
Reference | ||
Comment | From the Greek ὄναγρος 'wild donkey' |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Syriac | |
Lexeme | ʕərādā | |
Meaning 1 | wild ass (asinus ferus) | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | machine (machina) | |
Reference | LSyr.: 547 | |
Comment | See SED II, No. 37, also for other Semitic terms going to Proto-Semitic 'wild ass', on the one hand, and for the derived terms with the meaning 'catapult, kind of sieging engine', on the other hand. Probably, a calque from Greek onagros, Latin onager. |