to slow, linger to inhabit, live 4 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language French
Lexeme demeurer
Meaning 1 to slow, linger Il est demeuré une heure à lire la lettre
He lingered an hour on reading the letter
Direction
Meaning 2 to inhabit, live demeurer dans une rue
to live on a street
Reference CNRTL
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Semantic evolution
Language 1 Latin
Language 2 French
Lexeme 1 demoror, -ari
Lexeme 2 demeurer
Meaning 1 to delay, to linger
Direction
Meaning 2 to live, to dwell
Reference
Comment (Glare 514)
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Cognates
Language 1 Russian
Language 2 Polish
Lexeme 1 meškat'
Lexeme 2 mieszkać
Meaning 1 to delay, to linger
Meaning 2 to live, to dwell
Reference
Comment Cf. also Czech. meškat 'to be long, to be slow, to be, to stay', Old Rus. мѣшькати 'to live'.
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Serbo-Croatian
Lexeme trajati
Meaning 1 to last, to continue седница jе траjала до десет сати 'заседание продолжалось до десяти часов'
Direction
Meaning 2 to live, to reside овде ħу да траjем неколико дана 'здесь я буду жить несколько дней'
Reference
Comment Толстой 592