donkey
→
siege engine
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Akkadian | |
| lexeme | imēru | |
| meaning 1 | donkey | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a mechanical device of a ship; a part of the battering ram | |
| reference | CAD: i 110, 114-115 | |
| comment | See SED II No. 98; also No. 37. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | onager | |
| meaning 1 | wild donkey | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | stone fougasse | |
| reference | ||
| comment | From the Greek ὄναγρος 'wild donkey' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Syriac | |
| lexeme | ʕərādā | |
| meaning 1 | wild ass (asinus ferus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | machine (machina) | |
| reference | LSyr.: 547 | |
| comment | See SED II, No. 37, also for other Semitic terms going to Proto-Semitic 'wild ass', on the one hand, and for the derived terms with the meaning 'catapult, kind of sieging engine', on the other hand. Probably, a calque from Greek onagros, Latin onager. | |