to bend, bow (intr.)
→
to obey
3 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme | ὑποκύπτω | |
Meaning 1 | to stoop under a yoke, bow down, bow low | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to obey | Μῆδοι ὑπέκυψαν Πέρσῃσι bowed to the Persian yoke, Hdt.1.130 |
Reference | LSJ | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Romanian | |
Lexeme | a se apleca | |
Meaning 1 | to bend, to incline, to slant | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to obey, to resign | oameni ce nu s-au aplecat people who did not bow |
Reference | DRRS: 1, 115 | |
Comment |
NEW Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Turkish | |
Lexeme | katlan- | |
Meaning 1 | to bend, bow (intr.) | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to endure, obey, reconcile, put up | İnsanlar Jobs’ın arada sırada söylediği mantıksız ya da yanlış fikirlere de katlanmak zorunda kalıyorlardı. People also had to put up with Jobs’s occasional irrational or incorrect assertions. |
Reference | Baskakov 1977: 522 | |
Comment |
Also Russian прогибаться, прогнуться (progibat'sja, prognut'sja) 'to deflect, to sag' and 'to stoop (to), to flatter someone for success, to toady' Mokienko, Nikitina 2000, 481