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Early Hick Lexicon — Celestial Bodies

Entries in the Celestial Bodies semantic field.

murkel /mur.kel/
night sky (noun) [Time Terms, Celestial Bodies]
thrakel /θra.kel/
sun (noun) [Celestial Bodies, Sacred Terms]
sacred sky (noun) — Archaic literal sense preserved in etymology and poetic register [Celestial Bodies, Sacred Terms]
Lexicalized as the ordinary word for the sun; the literal sense 'sacred sky' is archaic.