Number of realizations
2
to inhabit, live
↔
to be situated
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian | |
| Lexeme | boraviti | |
| Meaning 1 | to live | |
| Meaning 2 | to be somewhere | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | žit' | |
| Meaning 1 | to live, to dwell (animate) | Я живу в Москве "I live in Moscow" |
| Meaning 2 | to be somewhere (inanimate, colloq.) | А где тут у вас живет чайник? "And where does the kettle "live" here?" |
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| Comment | Looks like this is a new phenomenon for the Russian colloquial practice, but it is getting more and more frequent. Cf. the use of умирать with inanimate objects (жесткий диск сдох 'the hard drive died', мотор умер 'the motor died' etc). | |