summer
→
South
2 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Lithuanian | |
| Lexeme | vasãris | |
| Meaning 1 | summer | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | southern | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Журавлев 2005, 881 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | leto | |
| Meaning 1 | summer | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | South, southern wind | |
| Reference | ESSJa: 15, 11 | |
| Comment | Second is dialectal. Also Old Ukraine летний 'southern' | |
Also Proto-Slavic *jugъ ‘South’ and some reflexes Bulgarian йук ‘southern warm wind’, Makedonian jyг ‘south, southern wind’, ‘thaw’, Serbo-Croatian jyг ‘southern wind’, Polish dialectal jug ‘thaw, melting of snow’. Russian ужин ‘(late) dinner; supper’ (originally ‘midday repast’) makes possible to reconstruct for *jugъ the meaning ‘midday’, compare Latin meridies < medidies ‘mid-day, noon; South’, Ancient Greek μεσημβρία ‘midday; South’. Thus, a connection is found between the names of the warmest time of the day and the warmest season. ESSLa 15,11