prophet
→
mantis
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | μάντις | |
| meaning 1 | seer or prophet | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mantis | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | harcʿuk (հարցուկ) | |
| meaning 1 | soothsayer, oracle | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mantis | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme 1 | peygamber | |
| lexeme 2 | peygamber devesi (peygamberdevesi) | |
| meaning 1 | prophet | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mantis | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 720 | |
| comment | literally "prophet's camel". | |