summer
—
harvest
3 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | θέρος | |
| meaning 1 | summer | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | summerfruits, harvest, crop | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | From the root θερμός 'hot'. The shift in meaning is 'hot season' > 'harvest season' > 'harvest' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | ὀπώρα | |
| meaning 1 | the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i.e. the last days of July, all Aug., and part of Sept.) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | fruit, harvest | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | In later times it became the name of a definite season, autumn, but was still used sts. to denote summer (autumn being distd. as φθινόπωρον or μετόπωρον), | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Gothic | |
| lexeme | asans | |
| meaning 1 | summer | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | harvest | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
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