to sleep
→
to come to end, to cease
1 realization
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tigrinya | |
Lexeme 1 | däḳḳäsä | |
Lexeme 2 | däḳḳäsä | |
Meaning 1 | ‘to sleep, slumber, to retire (for the night)’ | nəʔaboy kəṣəwwəʕo ʔayəḵəʔələn däḳisu ʔallommo ‘I can’t call my father because he is asleep’ |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | ‘to come to an end, to be over (matter, affair), to be settled, resolved (argument, quarrel)’ | bəsəməmməʕ kələttä täṣabaʔti zədəḳḳəs gəс̣̌с̣̌ət ‘a disput which is settled through the agreement of the two enemies’ |
Reference | KT | |
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