dry
→
having no milk
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | näṭṭäfä | |
| Meaning 1 | to dry up, go dry (river, spring in the dry season) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to stop giving milk (cow, nursing mother) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (K 1076). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | yabs-, yabas- | |
| Meaning 1 | dry, dried up, exsiccated | ḥaṭab-un yabs-un 'dry fire-wood' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | who has no milk | šāt-un yabs-un 'a ewe, or she-goat, without milk'; |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Lane 2975). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | dry | |
| Meaning 1 | the clothes are not dry yet the clothes are not dry yet |
|
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | having no milk (a cow etc.) | a dry cow |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (OERD 432). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | näḳ̆äṣä | |
| Meaning 1 | to become dry, to dry up | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to be dry (cow of milk) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (KT 1319). | |
Ср. также исл.þurr 'сухой', þurrmjólka 'яловая (о корове)' (Берков).