navel pole (geographical) 2 realizations
NEW 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)).