Number of realizations
11
to drag
→
to charm, to delight
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | vuta | |
| Meaning 1 | to pull, to draw, to drag | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to attract | |
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| Comment | Polikanov | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | vleč' | |
| Meaning 1 | to draw (obs.) | |
| Meaning 2 | to be attracted | a. Юношу влечет наука. 'The young man is attracted by science.' (Ozhegov, 86). b. Меня к нему влечет. 'He attracts me.' |
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| Comment | Russian borrowing from Church Slavonic. Proper development: волочь 'тащить' (pull, draw). The Rus. влечь is used mainly in meaning B. Cf. also prefixal verbs like увлечь (absorb), привлечь (attract) and adjectives увлекательный (exciting), привлекательный (charming). | |
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| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | taščit' | |
| Lexeme 2 | taščit'sja | |
| Meaning 1 | to draggle, to draw | |
| Meaning 2 | to enjoy | Я тащусь от этого (с этого) фильма. "I love this film." |
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| Comment | Cf. active/passive pair переть ~ переться. | |
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| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | peret' | |
| Lexeme 2 | peret' (bezl.) | |
| Meaning 1 | to carry p smth heavy | Куда ты прешь чемодан? "Where are you carrying the suitcase?" |
| Meaning 2 | to enjoy | меня прёт "I am loving it!" |
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| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | uvlekat' | |
| Lexeme 2 | uvlekat'sja | |
| Meaning 1 | to carry, to transport | a. Камень покатился с горы, увлекая за собой другие. 'A stone rolled down from the mountain, carrying with it other stones.' b. Поток увлек лодку. 'The current carried away the boat.' |
| Meaning 2 | to be fond of, to be into smth | Петя увлекается боксом. "Petya is fond of boxing." |
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| Comment | The intermediate stage of semantic change is seen in examples like "Работа увлекла его" 'The work absorbed her', "увлечь зрителя игрой" 'to sweep the audience with the performance' (Ozhegov 823). | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | çek- | |
| Meaning 1 | to draw, to pull | |
| Meaning 2 | to attract, to captivate | |
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| Comment | ТуРС 178. | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | säḥabä | |
| Meaning 1 | to draw, to pull | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to attract, to charm | |
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| Comment | KT 644 | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ğad̲aba | |
| Meaning 1 | to draw, to pull (Lane 394; Wehr 138) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be attractive, to charm (Wehr 138) | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | attirer | |
| Meaning 1 | to drag | L'aimant attire le fer. "The magnet attracts iron." |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to charm, to delight | Cette femme l'attire, cela se voit. "One can see that his woman attracts him." |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
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| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme 1 | trekke | |
| Lexeme 2 | tiltrekkende | |
| Meaning 1 | to drag | trekke dyna over seg "to pull the blanket over oneself" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | charming, attractive | en tiltrekkende pike "an attractive girl" |
| Reference | BO | |
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| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Danish | |
| Lexeme 1 | trække | |
| Lexeme 2 | tiltrække | |
| Meaning 1 | to drag | Hun trak brevet op af frakkelommen "She dragged the letter out of her jacket’s pocket" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to cause interest or sympathy | tiltrækkende mand "an attractive man" |
| Reference | DDO | |
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