road
→
manner, way
25 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | путь | |
| Lexeme 2 | путём | |
| Meaning 1 | road, beaten track, walking path | a. Проложить путь 'to break a path'. b Мощеные пути 'paved ways'. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | means, manner of achieving smth, direction | Он достиг этого путем ходатайства, поклонов, подкупа. He got it by means of solicitations, bows, bribes. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | путём is adverb from lexicalised instrumentalis singular from noun путь 'way'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | path | |
| Meaning 1 | ||
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | It is very seldom for two successive kings to tread in the same path. It is very seldom for two successive kings to tread in the same path. |
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| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | سبیل sabil | |
| Meaning 1 | road, way | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | means | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ПРС 439.Borrowing from Arabic | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Burmese | |
| Lexeme | чàун | |
| Meaning 1 | road, way | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | method | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Novikov et al. 1976, 71 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | tariki | |
| Meaning 1 | way, road | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | means | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov; borrowing from Arabic. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme 1 | طَرِيق ṭarīḳ- | |
| Lexeme 2 | طَرِيقَة ṭarīḳat- | |
| Meaning 1 | a road, way, path | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a way, mode, manner | |
| Reference | Lane: 1848-1849 | |
| Comment | The second lexeme is as also طَرِيق, which is metaphorically used in the sense of a way or a manner (like مَذْهَب, often relating to the doctrines and practices of religion, and often used in post-classical times as meaning the rule of a religious order or sect, and meaning also a manner of being; a state, or condition). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | njia | |
| Meaning 1 | way, road, street | njia уа reli railway |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | method | 1 njia уа ugunduzi kwa lijulikanalo 1 deductive method 2 to do smn's best , use all available means (to achieve the goal) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | mängäd | |
| Meaning 1 | road, route | mängäd ʔaṭa, mängäd ṭäffabbät to lose one's way, go astray |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | means, fashion, manner, method, way of doing s.th. | bäzih mängäd in this way, manner, fashion |
| Reference | AED: 282 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | way | |
| Meaning 1 | road | The way was rough The way was rough |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | manner, method | There are different ways of doing a thing |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | راه rāh | |
| Meaning 1 | road, way | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | means | از چه راه؟ In what way? |
| Reference | Rubinčik 1970: 710 | |
| Comment | ПРС 388. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Thai | |
| Lexeme | thāng | |
| Meaning 1 | way, road | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | means | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | also hón-thāng | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | camino | |
| Meaning 1 | road, way | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | means (to achieve smth) | camino directo the right way (to achieve smth) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Narumov 1995: 157 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | dào | |
| Meaning 1 | way, road | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | method | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | БКРС 11099 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | strada | |
| Meaning 1 | road, way | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | way, means, method | [...] aiuta a rafforzare le nostre relazioni,
se rappresenta la strada giusta che ci consentirà di esercitare maggiore influenza
[...] going to help us to strengthen relations is the right way for us to have more influence on these processes of transformation, |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | www.linguee.com (AZ) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| Lexeme | سَبِيل sabīl- | |
| Meaning 1 | way, road, path | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | access, means, expedient, possibility | يَا لَيْتَنِى ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا O would that I had obtained, with the Apostle, a means of access to Paradise. |
| Reference | Wehr: 461 Lane: 1302 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Chaha | |
| Lexeme | ema | |
| Meaning 1 | way, road | wər ema 'main road' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | manner | nəbrät yafʷäžəžpʷä ema yəšä ‘he looks for a way to improve the livelihood’ |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGur. I 9). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 17 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lezgian | |
| Lexeme | req | |
| Meaning 1 | road | ракьун рехъ railway (= iron road) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | means | и рекьелди in this way |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LezgRus 277-278) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | jìng | |
| Meaning 1 | path | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | way, access, method | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | БКРС 11051 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | via | |
| Meaning 1 | road, way | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | means | via belli; eadem via the way of making war; in the same way |
| Reference | Dvoreckij 1976: 819 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 20 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | road | |
| Meaning 1 | road, way | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | means | There is only one road to peace and that is to stop the war. There is only one road to peace and that is to stop the war. |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 21 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Sanskrit | |
| Lexeme | gáti | |
| Meaning 1 | way, road | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | means | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Кочергина 188 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 22 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Norwegian | |
| Lexeme | vei | |
| Meaning 1 | road | asfaltert vei paved road |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | manner, style | klesvei clothing style |
| Reference | BO | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 23 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | út | |
| Meaning 1 | road | erdei út road in the woods |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | manner, way | kerülő úton megtudni to find something out in in a roundabout way |
| Reference | Гальди 1974: 759 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Udmurt | |
| Lexeme | сюрес | |
| Meaning 1 | road, path | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | manner, way | |
| Reference | Kirillova 2008 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 25 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | ὀδός | |
| Meaning 1 | road | ἡ εἰς Θήβας φέρουσα οὐδός road leading to Thebes |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | manner, way | ὀδός τῆς νομοθεσίας way of making laws |
| Reference | Dvoreckij 1958 | |
| Comment | ||