to lose one's way
→
to make a mistake, be wrong
15 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1013 | to walk, wander | → | to fornicate | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | tänsäwallälä | |
| Meaning 1 | wander, walk without purpose (K 569) | |
| Meaning 2 | to be imbecile | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | πλάνη | |
| Meaning 1 | wandering | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | fallacy | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Bashkir | |
| Lexeme | аҙашыу | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to make a mistake, be wrong | |
| Reference | Bashkir Uraksin 1996: 10 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Burmese | |
| Lexeme | лàнхмà | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost, to lose the way | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to be wrong; fallacy | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Novikov et al. 1976, 512 | |
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | to go astray | |
| Meaning 1 | to lose one's way | In order not to go astray, it is often necessary to verify the correctness of the chosen direction of its movement. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to make a mistake, be wrong | Paul recognized that even church leaders may go astray. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | səḥta | |
| Meaning 1 | lose (the way), get lost | bəʔəsi zazzaziʔahu ḥora ba-fənotu wa-səḥta ‘each man went his own way and went astray’ (Jes. 53:6) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | make a mistake, err | nabiy ʔəmma səḥta ʔana ʔasḥatkəwwo ‘if a prophet erred, then I made him err’ (Hez. 14:9) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGz. 494; LLA 329f.) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | gegaya | |
| Meaning 1 | err, go astray, go wrong | yogi ʔəgeggi ʔəsma ʔənta fənota dabr mamaṣāʔku 'perhaps I am going astray because I came through a mountain road' (LLA 1199) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | err | ba-fətḥ ʔi-yəgeggi ʔafuhu ‘his mouth will not err in the judgment’ (Prov. 16:10) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGz. 185, LLA 1199). Cp. also derivative: ʔangegaya 'hinc innde oberrare, circumerrare, vagari': tāngegi bagadām 'you are wandering in the desert' (LLA 1199), with the meaning A only. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | азас- | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost | |
| Meaning 2 | to be mistaken | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | КРПС 47. | |
| NEW Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kazakh | |
| Lexeme | адасу | |
| Meaning 1 | to lose one's way | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to make a mistake, be wrong | |
| Reference | Syzdykova, Xusain (eds.) 2008: 27 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Komi | |
| Lexeme | ылавны | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost | шондiа лунö вöрын он ылав on a sunny day it is impossible to get lost in a forest |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to be mistaken | ылавны артасигöн to make a mistake in calculations |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | КомиРС 755 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lak | |
| Lexeme | äjq'in | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost, to lose the way | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be mistaken, to do wrong | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Khajdakov 1962: 42) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Lexeme | erro, -are | |
| Meaning 1 | to lose one's way, to get lost | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be wrong | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Nganasan | |
| Lexeme | дюгуса | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to be mistaken | |
| Reference | NMS: 499 Kosterkina, Momde, Ždanova 2001: 47 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | заблудиться (zabludit'sja) | |
| Lexeme 2 | заблуждаться (zabluždat'sja) | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost | Дети заблудились в лесу Children got lost in the forest |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be wrong | Вы заблуждаетесь You are mistaken! |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | In Czech bloudit, Pol. błądzić and Srb. Both meanings are combined; in Bulg. блуждая, Mac. блуди there is only 'to roam, to wander', | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tagalog | |
| Lexeme | máhidwâ | |
| Meaning 1 | to get lost | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be mistaken (fig.) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | hidwâ 'erroneous, mistaken' | |