to perceive smell
—
to have smell
8 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | to smell | |
| Meaning 1 | to perceive smell | Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to have smell | The drunkard smelt like a brewery. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | to scent | |
| Meaning 1 | to detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell; to inhale in order to detect the scent of (something) | The hounds scented the fox in the woods. I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (obsolete) to have smell | I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor? (1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al.) |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | riechen | |
| Meaning 1 | to perceive smell | an einer Rose riechen to smell a rose |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to have smell | Er riecht nach Knoblauch he smells like garlic |
| Reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | къокъла- | |
| Meaning 1 | to sniff | |
| Meaning 2 | to smell | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | The same in the Gagauz. Кок- ГРМС 274. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Modern Greek | |
| Lexeme | μυρίζω | |
| Meaning 1 | to perceive smell | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to have smell | |
| Reference | DSMG | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | mirosi | |
| Meaning 1 | to perceive an odor | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to have (and spread) an odor | Floarea miroase. The flower smells. |
| Reference | DEX98 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | lukta | |
| Meaning 1 | to perceive smell | Lukta gärna på blommorna! Feel free to smell the flowers! |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to have smell | Det luktar bränt i köket. It smells like something is burned in the kitchen. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | änäwä | |
| Meaning 1 | ‘to sniff, smell (s.th.)' | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | ‘to smell (give off a good or bad smell)’ | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (KT 2519) | |