contract, treaty
↔
will (legal document)
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | διαθήκη | |
| meaning 1 | contract, treaty | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | will (legal document) | ἢν μὴ διαθῶνται διαθήκην ἐμοί (Aristophanes, Aves 440) |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Armenian | |
| lexeme | ktak (կտակ) | |
| meaning 1 | contract, treaty | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | will (legal document) | |
| reference | Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 Awetikʿean et al. 1836-37 Ačaṙean | |
| comment | Borrowed from Middle Iranian: compare Middle Persian gtky, gty 'will, testament, document'. Borrowed into Iranian from Aramaic: compare Classical Syriac geṭṭā (ܓܛܐ) 'will, testament, document' Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 250 https://books.google.com/books?id=EiF0wNeMpYwC&pg=PA250 Szemerényi, Oswald (1970) “Iranica III (Nos. 32-43)”, in Mary Boyce, Ilya Gershevitch, editors, W.B. Henning memorial volume, London: Lund Humphries, page 420 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Old Church Slavonic | |
| lexeme | завѣтъ | |
| meaning 1 | contract, treaty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | order, instruction, or testament given to followers or descendants | |
| reference | Cejtlin et al. 1994: 225 | |
| comment | ||