woman Pleiades 4 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Old East Slavic
lexeme бабы
meaning 1 women
direction
meaning 2 Pleiades
reference Sreznevskij: 1, 37
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ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Polish
lexeme 1 baby
lexeme 2 Baby
meaning 1 women
direction
meaning 2 Pleiades
reference <personally collected data>
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NEW Realization 3
type Derivation
language Rengao
lexeme 1 hadrŭ̀h + halŏng
lexeme 2 halŏng hadrŭ̀h
meaning 1 girl ( young, unmarried) + star, constellation
direction
meaning 2 Pleiades
reference Gregerson & Gregerson 2026: 206
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ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme 1 бабы
lexeme 2 Бабы
meaning 1 woman
direction
meaning 2 (dialect) Pleiades

Посмотришь на небо - звёздочки плотно, как будто бабы собрались кучкой сплетничать, так Бабами и звали звёзды-те (Архангельская область, Ленский район).

reference Rut 2010: 82
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