to spring, jump
→
to skip over, overlook
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | zällälä | |
| Meaning 1 | to jump, leap, to gambol, frolic, skip | atzəläl təgäballäh gädäl 'don't leap, you may go off a cliff! (i.e. look before you leap!)' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to skip over (a word), omit (a line or word in reading); to overlook s.o. in serving food at a banquet | atzəlalaññ ‘don’t skip over me; don’t go over my head (to my superior)’ |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (K 1603) | |