to bend (intr.)
→
to die
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | загнуться (zagnut'sja) | |
| Meaning 1 | to ply | у тетрадки загнулся краешек The edge of the notebook sweeped off |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to die | Василий Петрович загнулся. Vasily Petrovich died |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Internal cognates | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | гнуть | |
| Lexeme 2 | гибнуть | |
| Meaning 1 | to bend | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to die | |
| Reference | Fasmer 1986: I, 404 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Yakut | |
| Lexeme | токуй- | |
| Meaning 1 | to bend, to crook | көнө уҥуоҕа токуйбут He got crooked with age |
| Meaning 2 | to die | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||