moon
→
silver
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | Luna | |
| meaning 1 | (chiefly science fiction or poetic) the name of Earth's moon; Moon | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete, alchemy) silver | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | Also in heraldry: argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets: "4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales" (1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77). |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Medieval Latin | |
| lexeme | Luna | |
| meaning 1 | moon | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (alchemy) silver | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Syriac | |
| lexeme 1 | sahrā | |
| lexeme 2 | shr, shrˀ | |
| meaning 1 | moon | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | silver | |
| reference | CAL Kogan 2015: 41, note 96 LSyr.: 462 | |
| comment | Kogan 2015: "It is uncertain to what extent *ŝahr- was synonymous to *warḫ- in Proto-Semitic: could the former designate specifically the “new moon,” “crescent”?". Also Hbr. ŝahărōnīm 'little moons (as amulets or jewelry)' (HALOT 1311). |
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Рабинович. В. Л. Алхимия. СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха. 2012. С. 104-107
Lindsay J. The origins of alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt. N. Y, 1970, P. 217).