Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | goy (גּוֹי) | |
| meaning 1 | (biblical) nation | wəʾeʿeśəḵā ləḡōy gāḏōl waʾăḇāreḵəḵā waʾăḡaddəlā šəméḵā wehyē bərāḵā. (וְאֶעֶשְׂךָ לְגוֹי גָּדוֹל וַאֲבָרֶכְךָ וַאֲגַדְּלָה שְׁמֶךָ וֶהְיֵה בְּרָכָה׃) And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing. (Tanach, Genesis 12:2, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (from Late Ancient Hebrew, Judaism) gentile | c. 30 BCE, “11.14–15”, in Damascus Covenant: |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | 'nation' > 'nation other than Israel' > 'gentile (a non-Jewish person), goy' The semantic shift to "member of another nation" had already begun in antiquity, appearing in extrabiblical sources such as the Damascus Document Bauer, Hans (1915), “Kleine Mitteilungen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 69, page 566 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-8179-60710-16/fragment/page=00000622 |
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| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | gentilis | |
| meaning 1 | of or belonging to the same people or nation | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | heathen, pagan | |
| reference | Lewis, Short LSJ | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Old Church Slavonic | |
| lexeme 1 | ѩзꙑкъ | |
| lexeme 2 | ѩзꙑчьникъ | |
| meaning 1 | people, nation | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | heathen, pagan | |
| reference | Cejtlin et al. 1994 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Old East Slavic | |
| lexeme 1 | ѧзꙑкъ, ꙗзꙑкъ, ѩзꙑкъ | |
| lexeme 2 | ѧзꙑчьникъ | |
| meaning 1 | people, nation | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | heathen, pagan | |
| reference | Sreznevskij | |
| comment | ||