noon, midday
→
South
18 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | μεσημβρία | |
| meaning 1 | noon, midday | ἐκ μεσημβρίας immediately after midday |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | South | τὰ πρὸς μεσαμβρίην southern regions |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | LSJ 1105-1106 | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Estonian | |
| lexeme | lõuna | |
| meaning 1 | noon | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | South | |
| reference | Veskimägi et al. 1995: 453 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Farsi | |
| lexeme | nimruz (نیمروز) | |
| meaning 1 | noon | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | South | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | From Middle Persian nymrwc (nēmrōz) 'south, midday'. Analyzable as nim + ruz, literally 'half day'. Compare Parthian nymrwc (nēmrož) 'south'. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | midi | |
| meaning 1 | noon | Qu'avez-vous mangé à midi ? What did you eat at noon? |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | south | appartement exposé au midi an apartment that looks to the south |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | dél | |
| meaning 1 | noon, midday | dél felé around noon |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | South | délre utazni to travel to the south |
| reference | Гальди 1974: 127 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Komi-Permyak | |
| lexeme | лун | |
| meaning 1 | day | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | South | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://dict.fu-lab.ru/term?tid=1307865 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | meridies | |
| meaning 1 | noon, midday | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | South | |
| reference | Glare: 1103 | |
| comment | meridies < medidies derived from medius 'middle' and dies 'day; | |
| NEW Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Maltese | |
| lexeme | nofsinhar | |
| meaning 1 | midday | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (archaic) South | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | From Arabic niṣf an-nahār 'midday; meridian' (نِصْف النَّهَار). By surface analysis, nofs 'mid, half' + nhar 'day'. Sense 'south' is a calque of Italian mezzogiorno. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | amiază | |
| meaning 1 | noon, midday | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | South (obs.) | vânt despre amiază the wind from the South |
| reference | DEX98 | |
| comment | DRRS 1, 86, DEX98. From Latin medidies DER 37 | |
| NEW Realization 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tatar | |
| lexeme | төш | |
| meaning 1 | noon | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dated) South | |
| reference | Asylgaraev, Ganiev et al. (eds.) 2007: 2, 416 | |
| comment | ||
Скорее всего, в русском калька с греческого.