lean
—
infertile (soil)
9 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
1078 | lean | → | fatless | Open |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | French | |
Lexeme | maigre | |
Meaning 1 | lean | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | infertile (soil) | |
Reference | Larousse online | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | German | |
Lexeme | mager | |
Meaning 1 | lean, meagre | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | barren, infertile | magerer Boden thin [exhausted] soil |
Reference | ||
Comment | Also the It. magro, Fr. Maigre |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | German | |
Lexeme | dürr | |
Meaning 1 | lean | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | lean (soil) | |
Reference | ||
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
Lexeme | báo | |
Meaning 1 | thin | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | barren, infertile (earth) | |
Reference | ||
Comment | БКРС 5384 |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | toščij | |
Meaning 1 | lean | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | lean | тощая почва lean soil |
Reference | ||
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Spanish | |
Lexeme | delgado | |
Meaning 1 | thin, lean | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | poor, lean (soil) | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Narumov 1995: 268 |
ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tigrinya | |
Lexeme | ʕabärä | |
Meaning 1 | 'to become or grow thin, lose weight (person), to become gaunt (cattle)' | ʔəzom ḳʷälaʕu bəzäy mäṭän ʕabirom ʔalläwu 'these children are extremely thin' |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | 'to dry out, become bare of vegetation (soil)' | |
Reference | ||
Comment | (KT 1873). Сf. ʕabar 'infertile, barren, dry (field, soil)' (KT 1873) |
ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tigrinya | |
Lexeme | räḳḳiḳ̆ | |
Meaning 1 | 'thin' | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | 'barren (soil)' | räḳḳiḳ̆ bota 'place where the soil is infertile' |
Reference | ||
Comment | (KT 560) |
ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Turkish | |
Lexeme | arık | |
Meaning 1 | lean | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | barren, infertile | arık toprak thin soil |
Reference | ||
Comment |