Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| 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 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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| 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'. |
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| 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'. |
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| 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 |
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