bee swarm
→
lemon balm (Melissa)
4 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Armenian | |
| lexeme 1 | jag (ձագ) | |
| lexeme 2 | jagi deł (ձագի դեղ) | |
| meaning 1 | young of an animal; in modern dialects also 'swarm of bees' | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | lemon balm (Melissa) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | From a post-classical genitive of jag (ձագ) + deł (դեղ) 'herb' Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), a separate print of Greppin 1995, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, § 3, pages 17–18 Ališan, Ġewond (1895) Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1763, page 381 https://books.google.com/books?id=p6glAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA381 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme 1 | roi | |
| lexeme 2 | roiniță | |
| meaning 1 | bee swarm | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | lemon balm (Melissa) | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | рой | |
| lexeme 2 | роевик | |
| meaning 1 | bee swarm | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | lemon balm (Melissa) | |
| reference | Annenkov 1876 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme 1 | oğul | |
| lexeme 2 | oğulotu | |
| meaning 1 | son | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | melissa (lat. Melissa) | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 685 | |
| comment | lit. son's grass |
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