Early Hick Lexicon — Natural Terms

Entries in the Natural Terms semantic field.

brises /bri.ses/

light, illumination; discover, explore (noun) [Natural Terms, Sacred Terms]

Proto-Hick *brisu-wesu

Shows metaphorical extension of "embraced heat" to light/illumination. Forms verb brises'er "to shine", further extended of illumination to discovery and exploration

dup /dup/

pearl; lump, mass (noun) [Natural Terms, Medical Terms]

Proto-Hick *dupu

Shows semantic extension from 'pearl' to general 'rounded mass'

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'.