stranger, foreign
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strange
10 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Amharic | |
Lexeme | əngəda | |
Meaning 1 | stranger, guest, visitor, newcomer | ay əmmamma əngəda mähonəwo näw? Aie, mother, are you becoming a stranger to us? |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | strange, odd, queer, weird, unusual | əngəda səmetəmm yətänannäḳäññal 'and a strange feeling suffocates me'; |
Reference | AED: 1249 | |
Comment | From *ngd 'to travel' (CDG 390; Kogan 2015: 463). The third and apparently most frequent meaning is 'guest'. |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Catalan | |
Lexeme | estrany | |
Meaning 1 | alien (not part of a particular family, clan, nation, or other social group) | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | strange; unusual; odd | |
Reference | DIEC2 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | ġarīb- | |
Meaning 1 | a stranger, foreigner; far from his home; (a man) not of one's own people; alien | ʔaḏāʕat ġazl-a-hā fī l-ġarāʔib-i She distributed her thread among the strange women’ (most of the women who spin for hire are strangers). |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | unusual, extraordinary, unfamiliar | kalimat-un ġarībat-un a strange, obscure word or expression |
Reference | Lane: 2243-44 | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | English | |
Lexeme | strange | |
Meaning 1 | (obsolete) belonging to another country; foreign. | How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land? ( (King James Bible, Psalms 137:4) |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary | |
Reference | English Wiktionary | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | French | |
Lexeme | étrange | |
Meaning 1 | (obsolete) stranger, foreign | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | strange | |
Reference | CNRTL | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Galician | |
Lexeme | estraño | |
Meaning 1 | strange; foreign; stranger; foreigner, outsider | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | weird, odd, peculiar | |
Reference | DDDDLG | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Latin | |
Lexeme | extraneus | |
Meaning 1 | stranger, foreign | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | strange | |
Reference | Lewis, Short | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Spanish | |
Lexeme | extraño | |
Meaning 1 | foreign, alien, extraneous | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | strange, unusual, odd, weird, bizarre | |
Reference | DRAE | |
Comment | extranjero 'foreign' |
ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Swahili | |
Lexeme | zungu | |
Meaning 1 | strange, foreign | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | strange | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Polikanov |
ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Turkish | |
Lexeme | garip | |
Meaning 1 | stranger, foreign | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | strange | |
Reference | Baskakov 1977: 314 | |
Comment |