navel
→
pole (geographical)
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
NEW Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Estonian | |
Lexeme | naba | |
Meaning 1 | navel | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | pole (geographical) | |
Reference | Veskimägi et al. 1995: 470 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Finnish | |
Lexeme | napa | |
Meaning 1 | (anatomy) navel | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | pole (geographical); magnetic or electrical pole | etelänapa South Pole |
Reference | Vahros, Ščerbakov 2007 | |
Comment | Proto-Finnic *napa 'navel'; an Indo-European loanword, either from Proto-Germanic *nabō, or from Baltic (compare Latvian naba)EES suggests that loaning from Baltic is more likely in light of many other basic Finnic body part terms being derived from the same direction (e.g. *hambas 'tooth' from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źámbas, *kakla 'neck' (compare Lithuanian kaklas), *raici 'thigh' (compare Lithuanian rietas)). |