busy
→
commerce, business
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 8224 | activity | → | commerce, business | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | ἀσχολία | |
| Meaning 1 | work, job, occupation | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | trade | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | From ἀ-σχολία lit. 'absense of rest' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme 1 | busy | |
| Lexeme 2 | business | |
| Meaning 1 | business | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | commercial activity | |
| Reference | ODE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | negotium | |
| Meaning 1 | occupation, job | quanquam negotium est (I will help you) though I have things to do (Plautus) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | trade | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | nec-otium 'absense of rest', a Greek calque | |
Бенвенист 1995, 105-110
The cognitive mechanism of this shift is as follows: busy > occupation, activity > commerce (as "the activity" by default).