night → 24 hours 26 realizations Multi-area
NEW Realization 1
type Borrowing
language 1 Bangi (Bobangi)
language 2 Lingala
lexeme mokolo
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference English Wiktionary
comment
NEW Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Chukchee
lexeme кивкив
meaning 1 overnight stay
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Moll, Inènlikèj 1957: 52
comment
NEW Realization 3
type Polysemy
language Gela (Nggela)
lexeme boŋi
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 306
comment
NEW Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Hawaiian
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 formerly the period of twenty-four hours beginning at nightfall
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment

Sense of time cycle based on counting of moon phases emerging not long after sunrise to differentiate between each solar cycle of similar tropical daytime lengths

Hawaiian Moon Phases and Traditional Resource Management‎, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, 2013 https://issuu.com/wpcouncil/docs/indigenous_display-1 
Langlas, Charles M. (2017), “Nā Pō o ka Malama: The “Nights” of the Hawaiian Month”, in Palapala‎, pages 101–112 https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/f5cb7590-874c-408a-8e20-8c1302a34dc7 
NEW Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Kiribati
lexeme boŋ
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 6
type Derivation
language Koryak
lexeme 1 кэвыны
lexeme 2 кэвгыйӈын
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 twenty four hours
reference
comment КорРС 57
NEW Realization 7
type Polysemy
language Kwamera
lexeme (nə)pən
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment
NEW Realization 8
type Polysemy
language Lao
lexeme kʰām (ຄ່ຳ)
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference SEAlang Lao
comment
NEW Realization 9
type Polysemy
language Lau (Malaita island)
lexeme boŋi
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 306
comment
NEW Realization 10
type Derivation
language Lonwolwol (Raljago, West Ambrym)
lexeme 1 buŋ
lexeme 2 (wo)buŋ
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 306
comment
NEW Realization 11
type Polysemy
language Mangga (Mangga Buang)
lexeme bus(in)
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 306
comment
NEW Realization 12
type Polysemy
language Maori
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference MD
comment

Best, Elsdon (1922), The Maori Division of Time, Wellington: A. R. Shearer, page 23
NEW Realization 13
type Polysemy
language Mapos Buang (Central Buang)
lexeme buk
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 306
comment
NEW Realization 14
type Polysemy
language Marquesan
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 15
type Derivation
language Mongolian (Khalkha)
lexeme 1 хонох (xonox)
lexeme 2 хоног (xonog)
meaning 1 to spend a night
direction →
meaning 2 twenty four hours
reference BAMRS 2001-2002
comment
NEW Realization 16
type Polysemy
language Mono-Alu
lexeme boi
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 306
comment
NEW Realization 17
type Polysemy
language Nanumean (North Tuvaluan)
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment
NEW Realization 18
type Polysemy
language Nokuku (Nogugu)
lexeme pon
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 306
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 19
type Polysemy
language Old English
lexeme niht
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 twenty four hours
reference
comment In Modern English there are traces of this system, like the obsolete sennight 'week' - from the Old Engl. seofon nihte 'seven nights', fortnight 'two weeks' - from fēorwertīene niht 'fourteen nights'
NEW Realization 20
type Polysemy
language Puluwat
lexeme pwōŋ
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment
NEW Realization 21
type Polysemy
language Rennellese
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment
NEW Realization 22
type Polysemy
language Samoan
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 23
type Polysemy
language Sanskrit
lexeme rātra
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 twenty four hours tri-rātra, ṣaḍ-rātra
three days and three nights, six days and six nights
reference MW: 876
comment

Журавлев 2005, 689

Pāṇini IV, 2, 29
NEW Realization 24
type Polysemy
language Sanskrit
lexeme kṣáp (क्षप्)
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 measure of time equivalent to a whole day of twenty-four hours
reference MW
comment
NEW Realization 25
type Polysemy
language Tahitian
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference English Wiktionary
comment
NEW Realization 26
type Polysemy
language Tuvaluan
lexeme pō
meaning 1 night
direction →
meaning 2 24 hours
reference Ross, Pawley, Osmond: 2, 307
comment

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