neck
→
mountain ridge, edge
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
520 | neck | → | mountain pass | Open |
NEW Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | δειρή | |
Meaning 1 | neck, throat | |
Meaning 2 | mountain range | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Cf. also δειράς mountain range, chain of hills |
NEW Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tibetan | |
Lexeme | gnya' | |
Meaning 1 | neck | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | mountain crest | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Рерих 3, 273 |
Cf. English col ‘a dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks’ borrowed from French col , from Latin collum ‘neck’. Note that the same word means ‘saddle’. And the shape of a dip between mountain peaks, i.e. route along a col, resembles a saddle. (Violetta)