Number of realizations
9
to hold (in hands)
→
to contain
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | q’un | |
| Meaning 1 | to hold | гъиле кьун "to hold in one's hand" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to hold | и банкади пуд литр кьада "This jar holds three litres." |
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| Comment | (LezgRus 207) | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | capio | |
| Meaning 1 | to take, to get | aliquid in manum capio "to take smth in one's hand" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to hold | domus eos non capiet "(Cicero) 'The house cannot host them'" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Glare 269-271; Дворецкий 153-154. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | yazä | |
| Meaning 1 | to take, to hold, to grasp | ləğğun əğğun yazäččäw "She took the child by the hand" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to hold | and kilolitər and ši litər yəyəzal "There is a thousand litre in a kilolitre" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | The same polysemy in Tigrinya ḥazä 'to hold, seize, grasp; to take; to contain, hold' (KT 264) | |
| Comment | K 1695 | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | hold | |
| Meaning 1 | to take, to hold | You must hold the rope tightly "You have to hlod the rope tight" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to hold | The pitcher holds two pints "The pitcher holds two pints" |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | deržat' | |
| Lexeme 2 | soderžat' | |
| Meaning 1 | hold | Он держит в руках цветы "He is holding flowers in his hand." |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to contain | Глава содержит три раздела "The chapter contains three sections" |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Syriac | |
| Lexeme | ʕrā, ʕrī | |
| Meaning 1 | to seize, take, comprehend | ʕraw purqəsā(ʔ) ‘they took (occupied) the tower’, pugdā d-killā ʕārē (h)wā ‘he holds the bridles of everything’ |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to include, contain | be-d-lā ʕārē (h)wā lhon mē(ʔ)mdā hānnā qpīsā ‘since this brief summary cannot include it for them’ |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Sokoloff 2009:1138. | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme 1 | teneo | |
| Lexeme 2 | contineo | |
| Meaning 1 | to hold | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to contain | |
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| Comment | ||
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | comprehendo | |
| Meaning 1 | to grasp | aliquid manibus comprehendere "to seize smth with one's hand" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to maintain, to have | triginta stadia comprehendere "to hold thirty stadias" |
| Reference | ||
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Дворецкий 219. cf. Also Tuebingen team: Fr. Prendre 'to take' - comprendre 'to contain, to hold' | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Akkadian | |
| Lexeme | kullu | |
| Meaning 1 | to hold (physically) an object | zīqāte ukallu (CAD 508) "‘they hold torches’ " |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to contain | šumma martum šišītam ukal ana bēl immerim murṣam ukal (CAD 512) "‘if the gall bladder has a membrane, it brings disease for the owner of the sheep’ " |
| Reference | CAD page 508 | |
| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | meaning 2 not about containers but rather of organs containing some signs of desease or substances containing admixture | |