Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
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| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Ancient Greek | |
| language 2 | Gothic | |
| lexeme 1 | ἐλέφας | |
| lexeme 2 | ulbandus | |
| meaning 1 | elephant | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | camel | raþizō allis ist ulbandau þairh þairkō nēþlōs þairhleiþan þau gabigamma in þiudangardja gudis galeiþan. (Gothic Bible: Gospel of Luke (Codex Argenteus) 18.25) For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Proto-Slavic *ulbandu > *ulbandъ > *vъlbǫdъ > *velьb(l)ǫd; Old Church Slavonic вельбѫдъ (velĭbǫdŭ), вельблѫдъ (velĭblǫdŭ) 'camel' Lehmann, Winfred P. (1986) “U20. *ulbandus”, in A Gothic Etymological Dictionary, based on the 3rd ed. of Feist’s dictionary, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 375 |
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| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Sumerian | |
| lexeme 1 | am-si-ḫar-ra-an /amsiḫarran/ | |
| lexeme 2 | am-si /amsi/ | |
| meaning 1 | camel | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | elephant | |
| reference | ePSD2 | |
| comment | am-si /amsi/ 'elephant' + ḫar-ra-an /ḫarran/ 'caravan, journey', literally “caravan elephant” |
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