to speak
→
to promise
6 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | φάσκω | |
| Meaning 1 | to speak | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to promise | φ. θήσειν ἀθάνατόν τινα to promise to make smn immortal (Homer) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ingush | |
| Lexeme | дош | |
| Meaning 1 | word | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | promise | |
| Reference | Bekova et al. 2009 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Nganasan | |
| Lexeme | буодя | |
| Meaning 1 | to speak | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to promise | |
| Reference | Kosterkina, Momde, Ždanova 2001: 25 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | zice | |
| Meaning 1 | to speak | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (folk) to promise | |
| Reference | MDA2 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | vorbă | |
| Meaning 1 | word | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | vow, promise | |
| Reference | DEX98 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Internal cognates | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | вещать | |
| Lexeme 2 | обещать | |
| Meaning 1 | to speak | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to promise | |
| Reference | ESSJa: 31, 31 | |
| Comment | Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic обѣщати (oběštati), from Proto-Slavic *oběťati, from *ob- + *věťati. |
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Russian давать слово 'to promise', lit. 'to give a word'