mother continent 3 realizations
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)'