nest (n.)
—
family
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Old East Slavic | |
| Lexeme | гнѣздо | |
| Meaning 1 | nest (n.) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | family; kin, descendants, posterity | Три гнѣзда людей: Поликарпикъ съ женою, у него сынъ Алешка, Петрушка Семеновъ съ женою Анискою, Еремка Фомин съ женою Дункою (1689); Дремлетъ въ полѣ Ольгово хороброе гнѣздо, далече залетѣло («Слово о полку Игореве») Three nests of people: Polikarpik with his wife, his son Aleshka, Petrushka Semenov with his wife Aniska, Yeremka Fomin with his wife Dunka; Oleg’s brave nest is snoozing in the field, far flown («The Tale of Igor's Campaign», Oleg’s nest = descendants prince Oleg Svyatoslavich, grandson of Yaroslav the Wise, grandfather of Igor Svyatoslavich) |
| Reference | SRJa XI-XVII: 4, 43-44 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Pukapukan | |
| Language 2 | Hawaiian | |
| Lexeme 1 | kooanga | |
| Lexeme 2 | ʔohana | |
| Meaning 1 | nest (n.) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | family | |
| Reference | POLLEX-Online | |
| Comment | Marquesas kohata ‘nest’, Moriori kuhanga ‘bird's nest’, New Zealand Maori koowhanga ‘nest’, Penrhyn koo(h)anga ‘nest’, Rarotongan kooʔanga ‘nest (of bird or animal)’, Tahitian ofaa ‘thicket, impenetrable brushwood; to nestle, or lie close in a nest, as a bird’, Tuamotu koofaŋa ‘nest’ | |