to smile
→
to please
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | sourire | |
| Meaning 1 | to smile | sourire à son interlocuteur to smile at one's interlocutor |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to like | Ce projet ne me sourit guère. I do not like this plan too much. |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | sorridere | |
| Meaning 1 | to smile | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to like | l'idea di passare l'estate in città non mi sorride affatto 'plan to spend in the city all summer does not make me happy' (lit. 'doesn't smile at all') |
| Reference | Zor'ko et al. 2002 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | surâde | |
| Meaning 1 | to smile | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to match desires, to attract, to seduce, to satisfy | |
| Reference | DEX98 | |
| Comment | From French sourire with influence Romanian râde 'to laugh' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | zâmbi | |
| Meaning 1 | to smile | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be favorable | |
| Reference | NODEX | |
| Comment | from Proto-Slavic *zǫbъ, Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ) 'tooth' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | улыбаться (ulybat'sja) | |
| Meaning 1 | to smile | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to like | Ночёвка на снегу не улыбалась альпинистам. Перспектива поехать на море улыбалась кому-л. The idea of spending the night on the snow did not make the alpinists happy. The prospect of going to the sea made smn happy. |
| Reference | BAS: 16, 559 | |
| Comment | ||