drink of immortality
→
nectar
4 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Ancient Greek | |
| language 2 | Latin | |
| lexeme 1 | νέκταρ | |
| lexeme 2 | nectar | |
| meaning 1 | drink of the gods | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | nectar | [...] aut cum liquentia mella or when [honeybees] press the liquid honey and swell the cells with sweet nectar, or gather the burdens of incoming [bees] |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Assamese | |
| lexeme | omia (অমিয়া) | |
| meaning 1 | amrita | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | nectar | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hindi | |
| lexeme | amŕt (अमृत) | |
| meaning 1 | amrita, an elixir; a substance that gives immortality to the user | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | nectar | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | amutam (அமுதம்) | |
| meaning 1 | drink of immortality | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | nectar | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon | |
| comment | ||