Early Hick Lexicon — Light Terms
Entries in the Light Terms semantic field.
- thral /θral/
- daylight, daytime (noun) [Time Terms, Natural Terms]
- calendar day, appointed day (noun) [Time Terms]
- sacred light, revelation (noun) — Poetic and religious sense extending daylight into sacred illumination; productive in revelatory derivations. [Sacred Terms, Light Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- sacred, ritual (noun) — Archaic or literary as a bare word; in ordinary usage chiefly retained as a productive derivational and compound element for sacred or ritually marked concepts. [Sacred Terms, Ritual Terms]
- sun deity (noun) — Archaic or theological; displaced in ordinary reference to the sun by thrakel. [Sacred Terms, Religious Terms]
- Proto-Hick *harala
- Developed from daylight and appointed day senses into sacred or ritually marked use; contrasts with brises 'firelight, illumination'.
- thralas /θra.las/
- divine revelation, sacred illumination (noun) — Poetic and religious; later lexicalized from ritual phrases where truth or insight is said to enter sacred light [Sacred Terms, Light Terms, Abstract Concepts, Case System]
- Ossified from ritual and maximic use of transparent thrallas 'into sacred light'; the lexicalized form simplifies the boundary and denotes divine revelation.