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). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme | кылбаччы | |
| Meaning 1 | cleanly | кылбаччы сот- to wipe off until it shines |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | completely | кылбаччы мэлдьэс to deny strongly |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ЯРС 206. The Yakut word has been derived from the root "to shine" and possibly means "shinigly" than "cleanly". | |
В основе перехода лежит метафора "чистый" - "чистое место" - "пустое место" - не остается ничего, кроме пустого места.