to bite
→
to quarrel
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | gämmäṭa | |
| Meaning 1 | to take a bite of dabbo- or ənǧära-bread, to tear off a chunk with the teeth, rend with the teeth | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to backbite, speak ill of an absent person | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (K 1920) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme 1 | gristi | |
| Lexeme 2 | gristi se | |
| Meaning 1 | to bite | gristi kruh bite the bread |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to quarrel, to hurt each other | |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | gryzt' | |
| Lexeme 2 | gryzt'sja | |
| Meaning 1 | to gnaw | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to quarrel | Они все время грызутся между собой They always argy-bargy between them |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Cf. also политическая грызня (political argy-bargy). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme 1 | гристи (gristi) | |
| Lexeme 2 | гристи се (gristi se) | |
| Meaning 1 | to bite | гристи јабуку, гристи нокте bite the apple, bite the nails |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to quarrel | |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 225 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme | хабыалас- | |
| Meaning 1 | to bite (e.g. a dog), to bite each other | |
| Meaning 2 | to fight, to quarrel | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||