The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2

Comment
Latin Quocunque vestrae mentes inclinant 'to whichever side your opinions incline' (Cicero Oratio IV in Catilinam, 31-32) < inclino 'to bend, bow (tr.)' (Lewis-Short 923)

ACCEPTED Realization 1
type		Polysemy
language		Amharic
lexeme		agaddälä
meaning 1	to incline (intr.), to lean to one side, slip down (to one side)
direction	→
meaning 2	to incline (to something), to be partial
reference
comment		(K 2038).

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type		Polysemy
language		Classical Arabic
lexeme		māla
meaning 1	to incline, to bend to earth (intr.)	wa-l-layl-u li-l-ġarb-i ḳad mālat kawākib-u-hu 'and the stars of the night bend down to earth' (Polosin 1995:558 [Antara b. Shaddad 42:6])
direction	→
meaning 2	to be disposed towards somebody or something, to like somebody or something	māla ʔilay-hi 'he loved him' (Lane 3026)
reference
comment		(BK II 1174; Lane 3026).

ACCEPTED Realization 3
type		Polysemy
language		English
lexeme		incline
meaning 1	to bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical	to incline the head
direction	→
meaning 2	to tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc	to incline to an opinion
reference		English Wiktionary
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 4
type		Polysemy
language		Gagauz
lexeme		mayıl
meaning 1	inclined, downward, slanting	майыл казык a lopsided pole
direction	→
meaning 2	inclined	майылым она I fancy him, I love him
reference
comment		ГРМС 323.

ACCEPTED Realization 5
type		Polysemy
language		German
lexeme		neigen
meaning 1	'to bend, to bow (tr.)'; sich neigen 'to bend, to bow (intr.)'	Das Schiff neigte sich zur Seite 'The ship lurched to one side'
direction	→
meaning 2	to be disposed towards something, to prefer something	Die politisch Konservativen neigen zum Schwarz-Weiss Denken 'The political conservatives are inclined to black-and-white thinking'
reference
comment		(Duden 2719).The verb A is transitive (and the intransitive meaning is expressed with a reflexive sich neigen), whereas the verb B is intransitive. Cp. Neigung 'das Geneigtsein; die Vorliebe' 'inclination, preference' (Duden 2720). Probably a calque from Latin inclino (see the English example).

ACCEPTED Realization 6
type		Derivation
language		Russian
lexeme 1		наклоняться (naklonjat'sja)
lexeme 2		склонность (sklonnost')
meaning 1	to bend
direction	→
meaning 2	to be inclined	a. Он склонен к алкоголизму. 'He is inclined to become an alcoholic';
reference
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NEW Realization 7
type		Polysemy
language		Turkish
lexeme		imale etmek
meaning 1	to bend, bow (tr.)
direction	→
meaning 2	to persuade into, incline (someone) to do smth.
reference		Baskakov 1977: 448
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