to make scratches
→
to write
4 realizations
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | γράφω | |
| Meaning 1 | (Epic) to scratch, cut into | γράψεν δέ οἱ ὀστέον ἄχρις / αἰχμὴ Πουλυδάμαντος […] Iliad 17.599 and the spearpoint of Polydamas scratched him close to the bone […] |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to write | |
| Reference | Sakhno 2001: 103 LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Middle English | |
| Lexeme | writen | |
| Meaning 1 | to engrave, carve, or scratch | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to write | |
| Reference | Sakhno 2001: 233 Kroonen 2013: 596-597 MED | |
| Comment | From Proto-Germanic *wrītaną 'to scratch, carve', 'to engrave, inscribe, write' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme | суруй- | |
| Meaning 1 | to scratch, to draw a line (with a sharp object) | хаптаhыны тоhоҕонон суруй- to scratch a board with a nail |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to write | 1) харандааhынан суруй- 2) өйтөн суруй- 1) to write with a pencil 2) to write an essay |
| Reference | Slepcov 1972: 345 | |
| Comment | It has been possibly borrowed from the Mongolian зурах. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Zulu | |
| Lexeme | bhala | |
| Meaning 1 | to make scratches, incisions | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to write | |
| Reference | Луцков А.Д. Зулу-Русский словарь 2014: 18 | |
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