Number of realizations
4
empty
—
naked, bare
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Akkadian | |
| Lexeme | erû | |
| Meaning 1 | empty | ina bītim erīm ‘in an empty house’ |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | naked | ṣubātī “ša” maḫrikunuma erišia ātanallak ‘my clothes are with you, and I go about naked’ |
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| Comment | (CAD E 320). From PS *ʕry 'to be naked' (cf. DUL 185 for cognates in Semitic). | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | ṭəraḥ | |
| Meaning 1 | empty | ʔab ṭəraḥu gäza "'in an empty house'" |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | naked, nude | bäti mängädi kiläw ʔənkä säbʔayən säbäytən darga ṭəraḥatom gäbiruwwom "'during all the journey, he had men and women (go) almost naked''" |
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| Comment | KT 2424 (there is also the meaning of 'only, solely, alone'); there is a possible variant ṭərayu 'empty, void, devoid, vacant, blank'; 'naked, bare' (KT 2435): ṭərayu bet 'empty house' | |
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | nudus | |
| Meaning 1 | empty | Non est nuda domus 'the house is not empty' |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | naked | nudo vestimenta detrahere 'to take off garments from a naked man (i.e. to do something impossible)' |
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| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Harari | |
| Lexeme | ḳōf | |
| Meaning 1 | empty | be-ḳōf 'in emptiness' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | nude, naked | ḥač̣i ḳōf ‘bare-backed’ |
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| Comment | (LHar. 122) | |