Early Hick Lexicon — Religious Terms

Entries in the Religious Terms semantic field.

imthral /im.θral/

evil deity (noun) [Sacred Terms, Religious Terms]

Compound fusion, maintains second element due to sacred term

tharala /θa.ra.la/

deity (noun) [Sacred Terms, Religious Terms]

Proto-Hick *harala

Religious term showing resistance to regular sound changes

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'.