tree
→
spear
3 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
2467 | <tree> | → | spear | Open |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | δόρυ | |
Meaning 1 | stem, tree | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | shaft of a spear; spear itself; hunting-spear | |
Reference | LSJ | |
Comment | Buck 1390 |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Latin | |
Lexeme | trabs | |
Meaning 1 | tree-trunk | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | spear-shaft | |
Reference | Glare: 1954 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Old Irish | |
Lexeme | crann | |
Meaning 1 | tree | in cruinn toirthig fruit tree |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | spear | la crand for sciathu banging spearshafts on shields |
Reference | eDIL | |
Comment |
Also Latin arbor ferrata 'javelin, throwing spear'. Regular polysemy in Latin 'a species of tree' and 'spear made of this tree' (abies, cornum, cornus, fraxinus, qquercus, pinus, robur, taxus)