mother
→
continent
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 298 | mother | → | main | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme 1 | mayr (մայր) | |
| lexeme 2 | mayrcʿamakʿ (մայրցամաք) | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | continent | |
| reference | Gukasjan 1974 | |
| comment | From mayr 'mother' and cʿamakʿ 'earth, dry land (as opposed to water)' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | мать (mat') | |
| lexeme 2 | материк (materik) | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | continent | |
| reference | BAS | |
| comment | Фасмер 2, 580-581: материк and матера 'сontinent', матерой (substantivated adjective) in Arkhangelsk dialect are from матерой 'adult, elderly, old; big, huge' thar was derivated form мать 'mother' only on Proto-Slavic level (Russian матёрый 'big, strong (about game animal)' > 'sophisticated, seasoned' and 'hardened, inveterate', Ukrainian материй ‘elderly’, Belorussian маторны ‘elderly’, Church Slavonic матеръ, маторъ ‘old’, Bulgarian матор ‘strong, healthy, mature, old’, Serbian матор ‘old’, Slovene mator ‘senile, aged’, Czech matorný ‘serious, strict’, Polish zаmаtоrzаɫу, zamotrzaɫy ‘hardened’) SRNG 18, 26-27. Also North Russian матёрая земля 'continent'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme 1 | ana | |
| lexeme 2 | anakara | |
| meaning 1 | mother | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | continent | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 54 | |
| comment | anakara = mother + 'land (as opposed to the sea)' | |
Armenian and Turkish forms are obviously connected.