wooden object → corpse 5 realizations FAMILY: Indo-European
ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 829)
type Polysemy
language Old East Slavic
lexeme трупъ
meaning 1 stump
direction —
meaning 2 dead body
reference
comment Срезневский 3, 1011
ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 2297)
type Cognates
language 1 Old Prussian
language 2 Gothic
lexeme 1 nowis
lexeme 2 naus
meaning 1 trunk, body, stump
direction —
meaning 2 corpse
reference
comment The Slav. *navь 'evil spirit; dead man', Old Icel. Nár 'dead man' go back to the same Indo-European protoform. ЭССЯ 24, 50-51, Lehmann 264
NEW Realization 3 (ID: 52246)
type Polysemy
language Romanian
lexeme ciont
meaning 1 stump, block of wood
direction —
meaning 2 corpse
reference Andrianov, Mixalchi 1954: 163
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 1510)
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme 1 чурка (čurka)
lexeme 2 окочуриться (okočurit'sja)
meaning 1 chock, log
direction →
meaning 2 to kick the bucket
reference
comment Фасмер, 2, 214, s.v. качуриться
ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 1935)
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme 1 кол (kol)
lexeme 2 околеть (okolet')
meaning 1 stake, pole
direction →
meaning 2 to die
reference
comment Фасмер, 3, 129

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