to swear (an oath)
→
to swear, curse
11 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme | sværge | |
| Meaning 1 | to swear | sværge falsk to commit perjury |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to swear, curse, abuse one another | |
| Reference | DDO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | swear | |
| Meaning 1 | to swear | to swear on the Bible to swear by the Bible |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to swear, to curse, to blaspheme | Don't swear at me, if you please! Don't swear at me, if you please! |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | oath | |
| Meaning 1 | oath | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | blasphemy, swear | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | jurer | |
| Meaning 1 | to swear | Il jure sur la tête de ses enfants qu'il est innocent He swears on the life of his children that he is innocent |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to swear, curse, abuse one another | jurer après un maladroit to curse a clumsy person |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | sverge | |
| Meaning 1 | to swear | sverge på at noe er sant to swear that sth is true |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to swear, curse, abuse one another | banne og sverge to curse and swear |
| Reference | BO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Old Slavonic | |
| Lexeme | клѧтва | |
| Meaning 1 | oath | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | damnation | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Old Slav. Word 286, the same in Old Rus., Bulg., Serb., Pol., Old Czech. | |
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Pali | |
| Lexeme | sapati | |
| Meaning 1 | to swear (an oath) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to revile | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Pali Text Society, London. The Pali Text Society's Pali-English dictionary. Chipstead, 1921-1925 P. 679 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | jurar | |
| Meaning 1 | to swear, to take an oath | jurar fidelidad a uno to give an oath of fidelity to someone |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to swear, to blaspheme | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Narumov 1995: 453 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | apizo | |
| Meaning 1 | oath | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | damnation, curse | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | svära | |
| Meaning 1 | to swear | svära med fingrarna på Bibeln to swear on the Bible |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to swear, curse, abuse one another | han svor tyst över missen he swore quietly at the failure |
| Reference | SAO | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Thai | |
| Lexeme | sà-bòt (สบถ) | |
| Meaning 1 | (elegant) to swear; to vow; to pledge; to take an oath | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to swear: to use profane oaths or language | |
| Reference | SEAlang Thai | |
| Comment | ||