to break (tr.) to make, create 4 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Cognates
Language 1 Akkadian
Language 2 Arabic
Lexeme 1 patāqu
Lexeme 2 فَتَقَ fataqa
Meaning 1 to shape, to create
Direction
Meaning 2 to slit, to rent asunder, to disjoin
Reference CAD: P 273 Lane: 2331
Comment

Cf. also JBA ptḳ 'to pierce' (DJBA 949), Syr. ptaḳ 'dirupit' (LSyr. 618).

ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Cognates
Language 1 Akkadian
Language 2 Geez
Lexeme 1 paṭāru
Lexeme 2 faṭara
Meaning 1 to untie, to release
Direction
Meaning 2 to create
Reference CDG: 171 CAD: P 286
Comment

From PS *pṭr 'to break' (Militarev 1986:65-67).

ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Ancient Hebrew
Lexeme שָׁבַר šaḇar
Meaning 1 to break (tr.)
Direction
Meaning 2 to make (used as a technical term “to break into, to make a mark in the ground”)

wā-ˀäšbōr ˁālāy ḥuqqī wā-ˀāsīm bәrīaḥ wū-ḏәlāṯāyim (Job 38:10)


(When) I fixed my boundary for him (the sea), and made bolt and doors. (cosmogonic about the sea and the sky).

Reference HAL: root no. 9352
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Russian
Lexeme разбить
Meaning 1 to break (tr.)
Direction
Meaning 2 to make

разбить палатку, разбить лагерь


to pitch a tent, to make a camp

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