clean (adj.)
→
totally, absolutely
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | pure | |
| meaning 1 | clean (adj.) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | absolutely | It is a pure nonsense! |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme | glan | |
| meaning 1 | clean (adj.) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | totally, absolutely | Rinne sí dearmad glan orthu she did clean forgetting on them |
| reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme | kirei (奇麗) | |
| meaning 1 | clean | 手をきれいに洗った。 Te o kirei ni aratta. I washed my hands clean. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | fully, completely | 昨日のことはきれいに忘れている Kinō no koto wa kirei ni wasurete iru I've clean forgot what happened yesterday. |
| reference | BCCWJ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | чистый (čistyj) | |
| lexeme 2 | начисто (načisto) | |
| meaning 1 | clean, pure | чистые руки clean hands |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | completely | начисто отрицать to deny smth outright |
| reference | BAS | |
| comment | Cf. also подчистую (completely). | |
В основе перехода лежит метафора "чистый" - "чистое место" - "пустое место" - не остается ничего, кроме пустого места.