to read to learn, study 12 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Thai
Lexeme ān
Meaning 1 to read, to declaim ān nay jay
'to read silently'
Direction
Meaning 2 to study, to grasp
Reference
Comment Morev 1964, 884
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Tabassaran
Lexeme urχub
Meaning 1 to read кагъаз урхуб
'to read a letter'
Meaning 2 to study йиз чвуччву институтдиъ урхура
'My brother goes to university.'
Reference
Comment (TabRus 299). The same in Agul (РУХАС).
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Wakhi
Lexeme ǰoy-
Meaning 1 to read
Direction
Meaning 2 to study
Reference
Comment ЭСИЯ 3, 271, Стеблин-Каменский 1999, 200
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Adyghe
Lexeme еджэн (jeǯen)
Meaning 1 to read
Direction
Meaning 2 to study
Reference Šaov 1975: 106 Txarkaxo 1991: 77
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Lezgian
Lexeme k’elun
Meaning 1 to read ктаб кIелун
'to read a book'
Meaning 2 to study
Reference
Comment (LezgRus 216). Тthe same in the Udi К1АЛ-ПЕСУН, where the root К1АЛ- is possibly related.
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Azerbaijani
Lexeme oxu-
Meaning 1 to read
Direction
Meaning 2 to study
Reference ARRAL
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Farsi
Lexeme خواندن xānd-an
Meaning 1 to read اين كتاب را خواندم in ketāb rā xānd-am
'I read this book'
Direction
Meaning 2 to study زبان انگليسي ميخوانم zabān-e englisi mi-xān-am
'I am learning English'
Reference Rubinčik 1970: 574
Comment The same in many other Iranic languages ЭСИЯ 3, 459
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Arabic
Lexeme darasa
Meaning 1 to read (a book)
Direction
Meaning 2 to study, to attend lessons by such and such professor
Reference
Comment BK I 688. The direction of shift is rather from B to A. The Hebrew cognate drš has the meaning 'to seek, to enquire about, to investigete, to search' (HALOT 233) - probably this develops into 'to study', and hence into 'to read'.
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Swahili
Lexeme soma
Meaning 1 to read soma kitabu
'to read a book'
Meaning 2 to study alianza kusomea uhandisi wa ndege
'He started studying aircraft engineering'
Reference
Comment Polikanov
ACCEPTED Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Thao
Lexeme shupilh
Meaning 1 to read
Direction
Meaning 2 to learn, study
Reference ACD
Comment Also 'to count'. See also in close related Bunun ma-sipul 'to count' and 'study, learn', but not 'to read'.
NEW Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Selkup
Lexeme то̄ргу
Meaning 1 to read мат то̄рбам
'I have read'
Direction
Meaning 2 to learn, study Нача́ӷэт то́рӽат хи́мияп, арк уро́калап
'There they studied chemistry and other lessons.'
Reference Consolidated Selkup
Comment
NEW Realization 12
Type Polysemy
Language Ingush
Lexeme деша
Meaning 1 to read
Direction
Meaning 2 to learn, study
Reference Bekova et al. 2009
Comment