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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Uzbek | |
| Lexeme | кўз | |
| Meaning 1 | eye | |
| Meaning 2 | jewel (in a ring) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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»). | |