Number of realizations
9
to read
—
to learn, study
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Thai | |
| Lexeme | ān | |
| Meaning 1 | to read, to declaim | ān nay jay "to read silently" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to study, to grasp | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | Morev 1964, 884 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tabassaran | |
| Lexeme | urχub | |
| Meaning 1 | to read | кагъаз урхуб "to read a letter" |
| Meaning 2 | to study | йиз чвуччву институтдиъ урхура "My brother goes to university." |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | (TabRus 299). The same in Agul (РУХАС). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Wakhi | |
| Lexeme | ǰoy- | |
| Meaning 1 | to read | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to study | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | ЭСИЯ 3, 271, Стеблин-Каменский 1999, 200 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Adyghe | |
| Lexeme | jeǯen | |
| Meaning 1 | to read | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to study | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | АдРС 106 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | k’elun | |
| Meaning 1 | to read | ктаб кIелун "to read a book" |
| Meaning 2 | to study | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | (LezgRus 216). Тthe same in the Udi К1АЛ-ПЕСУН, where the root К1АЛ- is possibly related. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Azeri | |
| Lexeme | oxu- | |
| Meaning 1 | to read | |
| Meaning 2 | to study | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | خواندن xānd-an | |
| Meaning 1 | to read | اين كتاب را خواندم in ketāb rā xānd-am "I read this book" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to study | زبان انگليسي ميخوانم zabān-e englisi mi-xān-am "I am learning English" |
| Reference | Rubinčik 1970 page 574 | |
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| Comment | The same in many other Iranic languages ЭСИЯ 3, 459 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | darasa | |
| Meaning 1 | to read (a book) | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | to study, to attend lessons by such and such professor | |
| Reference | ||
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| Comment | BK I 688. The direction of shift is rather from B to A. The Hebrew cognate drš has the meaning 'to seek, to enquire about, to investigete, to search' (HALOT 233) - probably this develops into 'to study', and hence into 'to read'. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | soma | |
| Meaning 1 | to read | soma kitabu "to read a book" |
| Meaning 2 | to study | alianza kusomea uhandisi wa ndege "He started studying aircraft engineering" |
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| Comment | Polikanov | |