to go, walk to find 10 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Cognates
Language 1 Classical Arabic
Language 2 Akkadian
Lexeme 1 ʔatā´
Lexeme 2 atû
Meaning 1 to come to somebody
Direction
Meaning 2 to discover, to find by accident awīlum ḫaliḳtašu úta 'the man will find again what he has lost'
Reference
Comment BK I 8-9; CAD a 2, 518. The correspondence is probable, but not proven. No etymology is offered for the Akkadian verb in AHw. 1493.
NEW Realization 2
Type Derivation
Language Croatian
Lexeme 1 ići
Lexeme 2 naći
Meaning 1 to go, walk

ići ulicom


go down the street

Direction
Meaning 2 to find
Reference HJP
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Derivation
Language English
Lexeme 1 come
Lexeme 2 come across
Meaning 1 to come
Meaning 2 to find One day while cleaning Paul's room, she came across his diary and started to read it.
One day while cleaning Paul's room, she came across his diary and started to read it.
Reference
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Cognates
Language 1 Geez
Language 2 Ancient Hebrew
Lexeme 1 maṣʔa
Lexeme 2 mṣʔ
Meaning 1 to come ʔamehā maṣʔa ʔiyasus ʔəmənna galilā (Matth. 3:13)
then came Jesus from Galilea
Direction
Meaning 2 to find what was sought lēḵ məṣāʔ ʔet-haḥiṣṣīm (1 Sam. 20:21)
go, find the arrows
Reference HAL: 619
Comment CDG 370; LLA 226. The verb in Geez goes back to Proto-Semitic 'to go'.
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Derivation
Language Latin
Lexeme 1 venio, -ire
Lexeme 2 invenio, -ire
Meaning 1 to go, walk
Direction
Meaning 2 to find
Reference
Comment (NP; Glare 2029, 957)
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Lithuanian
Lexeme apeíti
Meaning 1 to go round
Direction
Meaning 2 to find
Reference
Comment LRŽ 33
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Norwegian
Lexeme komme
Meaning 1 to go, walk
Direction
Meaning 2 to find by chance komme over
to come across
Reference BO
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Russian
Lexeme najti
Meaning 1 to come across Пароход нашел на мель.
The ship ran aground.
Direction
Meaning 2 to find Наконец-то я нашел свои часы.
I finally found my watch. Children found a hedgehog in the forest.
Reference
Comment In modern Russian the meaning 'come across' is marginal.
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Derivation
Language Russian
Lexeme 1 dybat'
Lexeme 2 nadybat'
Meaning 1 walk slowly
Direction
Meaning 2 to find, to get
Reference
Comment The first word is dialectal (south. ),the second is dialectal too, which recently became part of the colloquial language.
NEW Realization 10
Type Derivation
Language Serbian
Lexeme 1 ићи (ići)
Lexeme 2 наћи (naći)
Meaning 1 to go, walk

ићи брзо


go fast

Direction
Meaning 2 to find

наћи лека


find a cure

Reference Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 495, 800
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