winter solstice
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Christmas
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | Faroese | |
| Lexeme | jól | |
| Meaning 1 | Yule, pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | Christmas | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Icelandic | |
| Lexeme | jól | |
| Meaning 1 | Yule, pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | Christmas | |
| Reference | ISLEX | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | jul | |
| Meaning 1 | Yule, pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | Christmas | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | jul | |
| Meaning 1 | Yule, pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | Christmas | |
| Reference | SAOB | |
| Comment | ||
Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, plural *jeulō: Old English ġēol 'Christmas', Middle English yol, yole, ȝeolue, English Yule, Old Norse jól, Icelandic jól, Faroese jól, Norwegian Nynorsk jol, Old Swedish iūl, Swedish jul, Old Danish iūl, Danish jul, Norwegian Bokmål jul. Gothic hapax jiuleis "Yulemonth" (possibly November, December, or both) in naubaimbair[?] [...] fruma jiuleis ·l·. 'November[?] [...] first/before Yulemonth 30' (Codex Ambrosianus A).
Borrowed to Finnish joulu 'Christmas', Estonian jõulud 'Christmas', Finnish juhla 'feast, celebration'.