to search, look for
→
to ask (for)
22 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| 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 | to seek, look for | taḫaśśəśomu wa-ʔi-tərakkəbomu (Jes. 41:12) She looks for them and does not find them. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to demand, entreat | mannu ḫaŝaŝo la-zəntu ʔəm-ʔədekəmu (Jes. 1:12) Who demanded this from your hand? |
| reference | LLA: 584-585 Haser 2000: 182 | |
| comment | ||
| 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 | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to require, demand | |
| reference | HALOT: root 1403 Haser 2000: 182 | |
| comment | ||
| 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. | |