to go out
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to get immunity
1 realization
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Amharic | |
Lexeme | wäṭṭa | |
Meaning 1 | to go out, go outside | käbetu wäṭṭa 'he went out of the house' |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to take (vaccine), to have had an illness which immunizes one from that illness, e.g. smallpox | fänṭaṭa wäṭṭallät ‘he recoverd from smallpox (and will not get it again)’; yäwäṭṭallät käbt ‘livestock that has been vaccinated, immunized’ |
Reference | ||
Comment | (K 1583-1585); the meaning B requires an impersonal verb, and the logical subject is expressed through a pronominal suffix atteched through a benefactive suffix -ll- (lit. 'it went out for him'). |