bear (Ursus)
→
Big Dipper (Ursa Major)
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme 1 | ἄρκτος | |
| lexeme 2 | Ἄρκτος | |
| meaning 1 | bear (Ursus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Big Dipper | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Sanskrit | |
| lexeme | ṛ́kṣaḥ (ऋक्षः) | |
| meaning 1 | bear (Ursus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Big Dipper | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | RV 1.24.10 and TA 1.11.2 Witzel M. The Pleiades and the Bears viewed from inside the Vedic texts, Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, 5.2, 1999 Witzel, M. Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts, Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, 7 (3): 72, 2001 |
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| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Selkup | |
| lexeme | мыдэл ара | |
| meaning 1 | bear (Ursus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Big Dipper | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | euphemism, affectionate name for a bear, lit. 'younger brother-old man' Narym dialect https://dict.fu-lab.ru/term?tid=1021445 |
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