to go around
→
to defend
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ḥāṭa | |
| Meaning 1 | ‘to surround, encompass, environ, enclose, hem in’ | ḥāṭū bil-balad-i ‘they surrounded the sides of the town’ |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | ‘to guard, keep safely, protect, take care’ | ʔaḥūṭu ʕirḍ-ī ‘I guard my honour’ |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Lane 670-671. Cf. also ḥawwaṭa ‘to build a wall around something’, ḥāʔiṭ- ‘a wall’ (active participle from ḥāṭa) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Wolane | |
| Lexeme 1 | zäwärä | |
| Lexeme 2 | azwawärä | |
| Meaning 1 | ‘go around, turn around’ | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | ‘to guard a house at night by going around it’ | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | LGur. 717 | |