to make hard
→
to learn, study
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme 1 | твёрдый (tvёrdyj) | |
Lexeme 2 | затвердить (zatverdit') | |
Meaning 1 | hard, solid | твердое вещество 'solid substance' 'solid substance' |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to learn something by heart | затвердить урок 'to learn the lesson by heart' |
Reference | BTS | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tigrinya | |
Lexeme | ʔaṣnəʕe | |
Meaning 1 | to strengthen, reinforce, to cement, secure, steady | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to study, read over, memorize, learn by heart | ʔabärtiʕu ʔaṣnəʕe ‘to study hard, swot, be a grind’ |
Reference | ||
Comment | cf. ṣənuʕ ‘strong, tough, hard’. KT 2592 |