night
→
24 hours
7 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 | |
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lao | |
| lexeme | kʰām (ຄ່ຳ) | |
| meaning 1 | night | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | 24 hours | |
| reference | SEAlang Lao | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
У германцев такой семантический переход связан с системой исчисления времени, в которой, по свидетельству Тацита и Юлия Цезаря, началом суток служил заход солнца.