bowstring
→
hypotenuse
2 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 16229) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| lexeme | وَتَر watar- | |
| meaning 1 | bowstring | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hypotenuse | murabbaʕ-u l-watar-i square of hypotenuse |
| reference | Baranov: II 870 Lane: 2918 | |
| comment | Also, watar-u l-zāwiy-at-i l-qāʔim-at-i 'hypotenuse' (lit. the string of square corner) [Baranov, II 870]. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 43362) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | veter | |
| meaning 1 | bow-string | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | hypotenuse | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 899 | |
| comment | Arabian loanword. |
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