to sleep
→
to copulate, make love
11 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 4073 | to lie (posture) | → | to copulate, make love | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | täñña | |
| meaning 1 | to sleep, be asleep | täñto aräffädä to oversleep |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to sleep with a woman | täññat He slept with her, had sex with her. |
| reference | AED: 985 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | spavati | |
| meaning 1 | to sleep | čvrsto spavati to sleep soundly |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to have sexual intercourse (with) | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | sakaba, sakba | |
| meaning 1 | to sleep | soba yəsakkəb diba məskābu when he sleeps in his bed (Job 33:15) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to lie (with a woman) | ʔəlla sakabu ba-ʔənta wəlud [The spouses] who slept because of the children [in order to beget the children]. |
| reference | LLA: 380 CDG: 496 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | cubo, -are | |
| meaning 1 | to lie down or to be lying down, recline, to be in bed or on one's couch; to take one's rest, to sleep; to retire for the night | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to lie (with) for sexual intercourse | |
| reference | Glare: 464 | |
| comment | Also cubito 'to recline, to lie down, to take one's rest, to sleep', 'to have secual relations with a person' | |
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | спавати (spavati) | |
| meaning 1 | to sleep | Kad sam večerala , okupala sam se i otišla da spavam. When I had dinner, I took a bath and went to sleep. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to have sexual intercourse (with) | Nemojte spavati s nekim na prvom sastanku. Don't have sex with someone on the first date. |
| reference | CLARIN.SI Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1253 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | däḳḳäsä | |
| meaning 1 | to sleep, slumber | nəʔabboy kəṣəwwəʕo ʔayəḵəʔələn däḳḳisu ʔallommo I can't call my father because he is asleep. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to sleep (with a woman) | zətämärʕaḵəwwo säbʔay məsay mədəḳḳas kəʔabyänni källo … When the man I married refuses to sleep with me |
| reference | TED: 1748, 2105 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Vietnamese | |
| lexeme | nằm | |
| meaning 1 | to sleep, be asleep | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to have sexual intercourse (with) | |
| reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| comment | ||