amber
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electricity
5 realizations
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Welsh | |
| Lexeme | gwefr | |
| Meaning 1 | amber | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | electricity | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Along with the word trydan 'electricity' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Latin | |
| Language 2 | New Latin | |
| Lexeme | electricus | |
| Meaning 1 | amber | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | electric | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | The Latin word goes back to the Anc. Greek ἤλεκτρον 'amber'. The term has been coined by the English physicist William Gilbert (1544 - 1603) in his work "De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure" (1600). Название дано благодаря наблюдением над электризацией янтаря трением. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Icelandic | |
| Lexeme 1 | raf | |
| Lexeme 2 | rafmagn | |
| Meaning 1 | amber | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | electricity | Vélin gengur fyrir rafmagni The motor runs on electricity |
| Reference | ISLEX | |
| Comment | Lit. 'the force of amber'. Also rafgeymir 'battery', lit. 'the keeper of amber'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| Lexeme | kahrabā (كَهْرَبَاء) | |
| Meaning 1 | (obsolete) amber | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | electricity | |
| Reference | Wehr | |
| Comment | From the Persian kahrubā (کهربا) 'amber', from Middle Persian khlpʾd (kah-rubāy) 'amber' lit. 'stealing hay'. also the Turk. kehribar, kehlibar 'amber, electricity', Kurd. kahrbā, kahrūbā 'amber, electricity'. Цаболов 1, 529-530 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Language 2 | Modern Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | khašmál | |
| Meaning 1 | electrum, amber | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | electricity | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment |
Meanwhile, the meaning A is uncertain. The modern sense of electricity was coined by Judah Leib Gordon in 1880, based on the fact that Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον 'amber; electrum, alloy of gold and silver', from which electricity is derived, was used to translate the term in the Septuagint. |
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