Number of realizations
9
to sleep
→
to copulate
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Ulchi | |
Lexeme 1 | ав- | |
Lexeme 2 | аваjаман- | |
Meaning 1 | to sleep | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to have sexual relationship with a woman | |
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Comment | The second word, too, has the meaning of 'to ask in marriage' |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | English | |
Lexeme 1 | to sleep | |
Lexeme 2 | to sleep (with) | |
Meaning 1 | to sleep | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to have sexual relationship with smn | |
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Comment |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Geez | |
Lexeme | sakaba, sakba | |
Meaning 1 | 'to sleep' | soba yəsakkəb diba məskābu "Job 33:15 'when he sleeps in his bed' LLA 380" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | 'to lie (with a woman)' | ʔəlla sakabu ba-ʔənta wəlud "'[the spouses] who slept because of the children [in order to beget the children]' LLA 380" |
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Comment | LGz. 496 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Amharic | |
Lexeme | täñña | |
Meaning 1 | 'to sleep, be asleep' | täñto aräffädä "'to oversleep'" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | 'to sleep with a woman' | täññat; "'he slept with her, had sex with her';" |
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Comment | K 985 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tibetan | |
Lexeme | nyal-po | |
Meaning 1 | sleeping | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | sexual intercourse | |
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Comment | Рерих 3, 238. |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tigrinya | |
Lexeme | däḳḳäsä | |
Meaning 1 | 'to sleep, slumber' | nəʔabboy kəṣəwwəʕo ʔayəḵəʔələn däḳḳisu ʔallommo "'I can't call my father because he is asleep" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | 'to sleep (with a woman)' | zətämärʕaḵəwwo säbʔay məsay mədəḳḳas kəʔabyänni källo … "'When the man I married refuses to sleep with me' KT 1748" |
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Comment | KT 2105 |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | spat' | |
Meaning 1 | to sleep | Кирилл мирно спит в своей кровати. "Cyrill is sleeping peacefully in his bed." |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to shag, to go to bed | В бульварной прессе можно во всех подробностях прочесть, кто с кем спит. "In the tabloid press you can read about who sleeps with who in all details." |
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Comment |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Vietnamese | |
Lexeme | nằm | |
Meaning 1 | to sleep, be asleep | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to have sexual intercourse (with) | |
Reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
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Comment |
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Latin | |
Lexeme | cubo | |
Meaning 1 | to lie down or to be lying down, recline, to be in bed or on one's couch; to take one's rest, to sleep; to retire for the night | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to lie (with) for sexual intercourse | |
Reference | Glare page 464 | |
Related Languages | ||
Comment | Also cubito 'to recline, to lie down, to take one's rest, to sleep', 'to have secual relations with a person' |