low (location)
→
hell
2 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme 1 | inferus | |
| lexeme 2 | inferum | |
| meaning 1 | low | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hell | porta inferi gate of hell |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Old Church Slavonic | |
| lexeme 1 | исподьнъ | |
| lexeme 2 | землѩ исподьнѩѩ | |
| meaning 1 | low (location) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hell | |
| reference | Anikin RES: 20, 23 | |
| comment | Russian испόдняя ‘abode of sinful souls’, преисподняя (землú) ‘hell’ (Д 2: 55; 3: 392), исподьнии аду 'about sinners in hell’ XII—XIII c., преиспод(ь)нии (XI в.) ‘the lowest, the deepest’, ‘related to hell’, преисподнии (-яя) pl. ‘forces of hell’, преисподняя ‘hell’ (СлРЯ XI—XVII 6: 277; 18: 240—241) |
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