to rest
→
to stop doing smth.
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | ʔaʕrafa | |
| Meaning 1 | rest, find rest, come to rest, be at ease | ba-betā ʔi-yāʕarrəf ʔəgarihā 'her feet do not have rest in her house' (Prov. 7:11); kama yāʕrəfu ʔəm-́ṣāmāhomu 'so that they have rest from their toil' (Apoc. 14:13) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cease | tāʕarrǝf zarʔa watāʕarrǝf ʕaḍida ‘you stop sowing and you stop gleaning’ (Ex. 34:21); ʔaʕrafku ʔəm-ʔəkuy ‘I have given up the evil’ (Jer. 49:10) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGz. 69; LLA 970). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kumak | |
| Lexeme | horêân | |
| Meaning 1 | to take a rest | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to stop, cease | |
| Reference | François 2008: 183 | |
| Comment | ||