high (location)
→
proud
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | kʷärra | |
| Meaning 1 | to be suspended, hung up high, to be high, to be pointed or steeply canted (roof) | betu kʷärra ‘the house has a high, pointed roof’ |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be proud, haughty, to show off, put on airs | kʷärrabbəññ 'he acted haughtily to me' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (K 1382); the meaning B is the main meaning of the verb. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | gāboăh | |
| Meaning 1 | high | wə-yādəʕū kol-ʕăṣē ha-śśāde kī ʔănī yhwh hišpaltī ʕēṣ gāboăh higbahtī ʕēṣ šāpāl; Hez. 17:24: 'and all the trees learned that I, Yahwe, felled the high tree, made high the low tree' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | haughty | wa-yyiššaḥ ʔādām wa-yyišpal-ʔīš wə-ʕēnē gəbohīm tišpalnā Is. 5:15: 'and man bowed and man was made humble and the eyes of the proud were cast down' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (HALOT 171) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | rām | |
| Meaning 1 | high | ʕal-hehārīm hā-rāmīm wə-ʕal-ha-ggəbāʕot wə-taḥat kol-ʕēṣ raʕănān; Dt 12:2: 'on the high mountains and on the hills and under each green tree'; |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | haughty | ʕal-kol-gēʔe wā-rām; Jes. 2:12: 'on each proud and haughty'; |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (HALOT 1203) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ʔašamm- | |
| Meaning 1 | tall, high in the head (a mountain); high (a space of ascent in a mountain) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | self-magnifying, proud ,haughty (a man) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Lane 1504). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Borrowing | |
| Language 1 | Old French | |
| Language 2 | English | |
| Lexeme 1 | haut | |
| Lexeme 2 | haughty | |
| Meaning 1 | high | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | scornfully and condescendingly proud | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ODEE 1966:430; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/haughty | |