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 | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lao | |
| lexeme | kʰām (ຄ່ຳ) | |
| meaning 1 | night | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | 24 hours | |
| reference | SEAlang Lao | |
| comment | ||
| 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 |
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| 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.