navel
→
pole (geographical)
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Estonian | |
| lexeme | naba | |
| meaning 1 | navel | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | pole (geographical) | |
| reference | Veskimägi et al. 1995: 470 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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)). | |