jewel, precious stone
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eye
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 | Polish | |
Lexeme | oko | |
Meaning 1 | eye | |
Meaning 2 | gem, cameo (in a ring) | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Cf. the Russian глазок ‘о перстне и о подобной вещи: одиночный камешек, жемчужинка’ (a ring or a similar thing: a pebble, a pearl) (Dal'). |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Uzbek | |
Lexeme | кўз | |
Meaning 1 | eye | |
Meaning 2 | jewel (in a ring) | |
Reference | ||
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Cognates | |
Language 1 | Polish | |
Language 2 | Russian | |
Lexeme 1 | głaz | |
Lexeme 2 | glaz | |
Meaning 1 | rock, boulder | |
Meaning 2 | eye | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Most probably it goes back to the Slav. *gl-a-zъ, which is a suffixal derivation from the I.-E. *g(h)el «pebble», «round», «ball-like». The etymology: the Rus. глаз < ‘ball, stone’ (cf. Pol. glaz «boulder», «sandstone», Old Czech. Hlazec «gem»). |