night
→
24 hours
5 realizations
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Chukchee | |
| Lexeme | кивкив | |
| Meaning 1 | overnight stay | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | 24 hours | |
| Reference | Moll, Inènlikèj 1957: 52 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Koryak | |
| Lexeme 1 | кэвыны | |
| Lexeme 2 | кэвгыйӈын | |
| Meaning 1 | night | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | twenty four hours | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | КорРС 57 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
| Lexeme 1 | hono- | |
| Lexeme 2 | honog | |
| Meaning 1 | to sleep | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | twenty four hours | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Comment | Кочергина 543, the second meaning is absent in the dictionary. Журавлев 2005, 689 | |
У германцев такой семантический переход связан с системой исчисления времени, в которой, по свидетельству Тацита и Юлия Цезаря, началом суток служил заход солнца.