nail (metal spike)
→
Pole Star
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Estonian | |
| lexeme 1 | nael | |
| lexeme 2 | Põhjanael | |
| meaning 1 | nail (metal spike) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Pole Star | Põhjanaela järgi saab põhjapoolkeral määrata põhjasuunda. The Pole Star can be used to determine the north direction in the northern hemisphere. |
| reference | EKSS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Levantine Arabic | |
| lexeme | mismār (مِسْمَار) | |
| meaning 1 | nail (metal spike) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Pole Star | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | recorded by Johann Gottfried Wetzstein Allen, Richard Hinckley Star-Names and Their Meanings. New York, Leipzig, etc.: G.E. Stechert. 1899. P.457 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Middle Persian (Pahlavi) | |
| lexeme 1 | mēx | |
| lexeme 2 | mēx ī mayān ī asmān | |
| meaning 1 | nail (metal spike) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Pole Star | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | 'nail in the middle of a sky', also mēx ī gāh 'nail of the throne' Bundahishn 24, Bundahishn 31, Kar-Namag i Ardashir i Pabagan IV, 6 Рак И.В. Зороастрийская мифология. Мифы древнего и раннесредневекового Ирана. СПб., 1998. C. 87 Чунакова О. М. Пехлевийский словарь зороастрийских терминов, мифических персонажей и мифологических символов. М.: Восточная литература. 2004. С. 175 |
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