tree
→
spear
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2467 | <tree> | → | spear | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | trabs | |
| meaning 1 | tree-trunk | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | spear-shaft | |
| reference | Glare: 1954 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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)