to wet, moisten
→
to strike, hit
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | močit' | |
| Meaning 1 | to moisten | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to kill | мочить в сортире to kill in the toilet |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Serbian | |
| Language 2 | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | квасити (kvasiti) | |
| Lexeme 2 | квасить (kvasit’) | |
| Meaning 1 | to wet, moisten | квасити руке водом, квасити косу to wet hands with water, to wet hair |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to beat, hit | Да я тебе сейчас харю квасить буду! (Д. Липскеров. Последний сон разума) Now I will start smashing on your broad face! (D. Lipskerov, The last dream of the mind) |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 530 | |
| Comment | Also Croatian kvasiti 'to wet, moisten' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | ıslat- | |
| Meaning 1 | to wet, moisten, soak | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to beat someone (argo) | |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 420 | |
| Comment | ||