to burn (intr.)
+
stone (material)
→
sulfur
3 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
-
Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Cornish | |
| lexeme 1 | losk + men | |
| lexeme 2 | loskven | |
| meaning 1 | to burn (intr.) + stone (material) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sulfur, brimstone | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme 1 | brenna + steinn | |
| lexeme 2 | brennisteinn | |
| meaning 1 | to burn (intr.) + stone (material) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sulfur | |
| reference | Berkov et al. 1962 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Old English | |
| lexeme 1 | bryn + stān | |
| lexeme 2 | brynstān | |
| meaning 1 | to burn (intr.) + stone (material) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sulfur, the sulfur of hell | |
| reference | Bosworth, Toller | |
| comment | ||