monster (supernatural) whale 4 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Ancient Greek
Lexeme κῆτος
Meaning 1 sea-monster or huge fish
Direction
Meaning 2 spouting cetacea
Reference LSJ
Comment

Second meaning in Aristoteles Historia Animalium 566b2, PA 669a8, 697a16

ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Armenian
Lexeme višap (վիշապ)
Meaning 1 (Armenian mythology) vishap
Direction
Meaning 2 leviathan; whale

višap jukn (վիշապ ձուկն)


cachalot

Reference Ačaṙean Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 Awetikʿean et al. 1836-37
Comment

also 'typhon, vortex, whirlpool', '(figuratively) banner of Roman legions', '(astronomy) Draco'.

from Iranian source, compare Avestan višāpa 'an epithet of a dragon'.

ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Georgian
Lexeme vešaṗi (ვეშაპი)
Meaning 1 dragon, specially monoliths of dragon-like creatures found in large numbers in the Armenian Highlands

veshap’is megalituri dzegli p’irvelad somkhetshi geghamis mtebshi aghmoachines (ვეშაპის მეგალითური ძეგლი პირველად სომხეთში გეღამის მთებში აღმოაჩინეს)


The vishap megalithic monument was first discovered in the Gegham Mountains in Armenia

Direction
Meaning 2 whale

grenlandiuri veshap’i (გრენლანდიური ვეშაპი)


bowhead whale (Greenland right whale)

Reference Čubinov 1887: 506 <personally collected data> Ačaṙean
Comment

As mythical dragon also gvelešaṗi (გველეშაპი) from gveli (გველი) 'snake' + vešaṗi.

Also lomvešaṗi (ლომვეშაპი) 'walrus' from lomi (ლომი) 'lion' + vešaṗi.

Compare Classical Armenian višap (վիշապ) '(Armenian mythology) vishap', 'leviathan; whale', 'typhon, vortex, whirlpool', '(figuratively) banner of Roman legions', '(astronomy) Draco'. Ultimately from Iranian source, compare Avestan višāpa 'an epithet of a dragon'.

ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Syriac
Lexeme qēʾṭāʾ (ܩܐܛܐ)
Meaning 1 sea monster
Direction
Meaning 2 whale
Reference Payne Smith: 486
Comment

From Greek