to search, look for to ask (for) 22 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Egyptian
Lexeme wḥ3
Meaning 1 look for, seek, require
Direction
Meaning 2 demand
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Estonian
Lexeme ot'sima
Meaning 1 look for
Direction
Meaning 2 request
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Finnish
Lexeme pyytä-
Meaning 1 look for
Direction
Meaning 2 request
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Geez
Lexeme ḫaśśaśa
Meaning 1 seek, look for taḫaśśəśomu wa-ʔi-tərakkəbomu (Jes. 41:12)
She looks for them and does not find them.
Direction
Meaning 2 demand, entreat mannu ḫaŝaŝo la-zəntu ʔəm-ʔədekəmu (Jes. 1:12)
Who demanded this from your hand?
Reference LLA: 584-585
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Borrowing
Language 1 Hausa
Language 2 Dangaleat
Lexeme 1 biδa
Lexeme 2 bōde
Meaning 1 seek
Direction
Meaning 2 reclaim (a debt)
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Hungarian
Lexeme keres
Meaning 1 look for something, seek something a tettest keresni
to search for the criminal
Direction
Meaning 2 demand (something or someone) rajtam keresi az elveszett könyvetam keresi az elveszett könyvet
he demands the lost book of mek of me
Reference Гальди 1974: 362
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Semantic evolution
Language Japanese
Lexeme motomeru
Meaning 1 look for Hetsunami no yosuru shiratama motomutozo kimi ga kimasanu (辺つ波の寄する白玉求むとぞ君は来まさぬ)
Lady, your husband whom you await / Does not come to you, / Because he seeks the pearls / Borne by the ocean waves (https://archive.org/details/Manyoshu - The Man'yoshu, verse 875-9)
Direction
Meaning 2 demand, request Motomeyo, shikaraba ataeraren (求めよ, しからば与えられん)
Ask, and it shall be given you.
Reference
Comment Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary. T.Watanabe, E.Skrzypczak, P.Snowden eds. Tokyo: Kenkyusha. 2003 (5th edition)
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Japanese
Lexeme motomeru
Meaning 1 look for
Direction
Meaning 2 demand, request
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Khmer
Lexeme rɔ:k
Meaning 1 to look for
Direction
Meaning 2 to aske, to make a request
Reference
Comment Gorgoniev 1984, 556
ACCEPTED Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Korean
Lexeme kwu hata
Meaning 1 looks for, seeks
Direction
Meaning 2 ask (for), wants, needs, tries
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Macedonian
Lexeme bara
Meaning 1 to look for
Meaning 2 to ask, to demand
Reference
Comment [Толовски, Иллич-Свитыч 1963: 24]
ACCEPTED Realization 12
Type Polysemy
Language Manchu
Lexeme baimbi
Meaning 1 seek, look for
Direction
Meaning 2 ask for, request
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 13
Type Polysemy
Language Maya
Lexeme kaxan-nah
Meaning 1 look for
Direction
Meaning 2 request
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 14
Type Polysemy
Language Modern Greek
Lexeme γυρεύω
Meaning 1 to look for, to seek
Direction
Meaning 2 to ask, to demand
Reference
Comment Хориков, Малев: 231
ACCEPTED Realization 15
Type Derivation
Language Modern Hebrew
Lexeme בִּקֵּש biqqēš
Meaning 1 to look for (pi'el-stem)
Direction
Meaning 2 to require, demand
Reference HAL: root 1403
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 16
Type Polysemy
Language Mongolian (Khalkha)
Lexeme ere-
Meaning 1 look for
Direction
Meaning 2 ask for
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 17
Type Polysemy
Language Nahuatl
Lexeme 1 tēmoa: tla
Lexeme 2 tēmolia: tē-tla
Meaning 1 seek something
Direction
Meaning 2 ask someone for something
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 18
Type Polysemy
Language Tigre
Lexeme ramḳa
Meaning 1 to seek molād ʔəndo ramaḳnā
as we sought relatives
Direction
Meaning 2 to ask, to entreat earnestly wa-ʔadəg bəzuḥ ramḳayom
and the donkey entreated them very much
Reference TED: 158
Comment The basic meaning is B.
NEW Realization 19
Type Polysemy
Language Tundra Yukaghir
Lexeme ваҥчи-
Meaning 1 to search, to look for

"Мэтул эл ваҥчильэҥитаҕанэк" мондэлэк, Идьилвэй мэ саҕаальэнь


Having said "Do not look for me", it turns out that Idilway disappeared

Direction
Meaning 2 to ask (for)

Похтикаан адуо, мэтул эл пунльэк. Нэмэлэҥ ваҥчимэҥ, йавную киит


Son of Pokhtikaan, don't kill me. What you ask, I will give everything

Reference Kurilov 2001: 66
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 20
Type Polysemy
Language Turkish
Lexeme ara-
Meaning 1 look for, investigate
Direction
Meaning 2 demand, ask for
Reference
Comment Haser 2000, 182
ACCEPTED Realization 21
Type Polysemy
Language Tuvan
Lexeme диле-
Meaning 1 to look for демир рудазын дилээри
the search for ironstone
Meaning 2 to ask
Reference
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 22
Type Polysemy
Language Yakut
Lexeme көрдөө-
Meaning 1 to look for, to seek
Direction
Meaning 2 to ask, to demand
Reference
Comment ЯРС 180.