to cut to decide 20 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Derivation
Language Akkadian
Lexeme 1 purrrusu (D-stem)
Lexeme 2 parāsu
Meaning 1 to chop off, dismember ina sikkatim ullâninni-ma mešrētīya purrisā
Hang me on a peg, dismember me (chop off my limbs).
Direction
Meaning 2 to render a verdict, to make a decision mimma ša šarru ṣebû liprus
The king should decide whatever he wishes.
Reference CAD: 171-172, 175
Comment The meaning A belongs to the derived verb, and the meaning B is present in the non-derived verb. However, the verb parāsu has some other meanings like 'to stop', 'to block' which are presumably also derived from 'to cut, to cut off'. The cognates elsewhere in Semitic have the meanings 'to break', 'to rent with teeth, to cut'.
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Amharic
Lexeme ḳʷärräṭä
Meaning 1 to cut, cut off əğun ḳʷärräṭä
to cut off one's hand/arm
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide, fix, deternine (on s.th.), to make a resolution

guday ḳʷärräṭä 'to decide a matter';

agären läqəqqe lämässädäd ḳʷärräṭhu 'I decided to leave my land and to move to another place' (Haddis Alämayyähu, Tärät tärät... p. 51)

Reference AED: 739-740
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Ancient Greek
Lexeme διαιρέω
Meaning 1 to cut up, to cleave
Direction
Meaning 2 to solve a problem
Reference
Comment LSJ 395-396
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Ancient Hebrew
Lexeme gzr (qal-stem)
Meaning 1 to cut wa-yyōmer ha-mmeleḵ gizrū ʔät-ha-yyeled haḥay li-šənāyim (1K 3:25)
And the king said: Cut the living infant in two.
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide wə-tigzar ʔōmer wə-yāḳām lāḵ (Job 22:28)
And you will decide upon something, and it will be established for you.
Reference HAL: 179
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Derivation
Language Basque
Lexeme 1 ebaki
Lexeme 2 erabaki
Meaning 1 cut
Direction
Meaning 2 make someone cut; decide
Reference
Comment Deutscher 2005
NEW Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Batsbi
Lexeme tiṭar
Meaning 1 to cut (tr.)
Direction
Meaning 2 to settle, to decide
Reference Mikeladze, Gigashvili 2012: 351
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Chaha
Lexeme anṭä-m
Meaning 1 cut, slaughter, reap cereals, harvest grain fʷägägä-m anṭä-m 

cut off something very close (e.g. the skin from the flesh)

Direction
Meaning 2 decide yäsäda anč̣ərä-m 

the elders decided that the person to whom injustice was done was to receive recompense

Reference EDG I: 17
Comment The same polysemy in other Gunnän-Gurage languages (EDG I 76; 93).
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Arabic
Lexeme ğazama
Meaning 1 to cut, cut off ğazama min-a n-naḫlat-i ğizm-an
He cut off a portion (of the fruit) from the palm-tree
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide, to determine ğazama l-ʔamr-a
He decided the affaire irreversibly
Reference Lane: 421
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Arabic
Lexeme batta
Meaning 1 to cut batattu l-ḥabl-a
I cut the rope
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide batta ʕalayhi l-ḳaḍāʔ-a
He decided the judgement against him
Reference Lane: 147
Comment LA II, 6.
NEW Realization 10
Type Derivation
Language Croatian
Lexeme 1 lučiti
Lexeme 2 odlučiti
Meaning 1 to cut (tr.)
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide

odlučivale su minute


the minutes decided

Reference HJP
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Endo
Lexeme til
Meaning 1 cut
Direction
Meaning 2 decide
Reference
Comment Deutscher 2005
ACCEPTED Realization 12
Type Derivation
Language Geez
Lexeme 1 matara
Lexeme 2 mətur
Meaning 1 to cut, amputate ʔəmattər rəʔsaka ʔəmənneka (1 Reg. 17:46)
I’ll chop off your head
Direction
Meaning 2 decided, decided upon, definite məturnu zənagar
Is this thing decided?
Reference LLA: 184-185
Comment mətur also means 'cut-off': mətura ʔəzn 'with cut-off ear'.
ACCEPTED Realization 13
Type Polysemy
Language Latin
Lexeme decido, -ere
Meaning 1 to cut, to chop off decido caput
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide
Reference
Comment Glare 490
SUSPENDED Realization 14
Type Polysemy
Language Mandarin Chinese
Lexeme jué
Meaning 1 cut
Direction
Meaning 2 decide
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 15
Type Cognates
Language 1 Old English
Language 2 Ancient Greek
Lexeme 1 sceran
Lexeme 2 κρίνω
Meaning 1 cut off, shear
Direction
Meaning 2 to take a decision
Reference
Comment Cf. also the meaning of 'to divide' in the verb κρίνω LSJ 996
NEW Realization 16
Type Derivation
Language Serbian
Lexeme 1 лучити (lučiti)
Lexeme 2 одлучити (odlučiti)
Meaning 1 separate лучити стварно од привидног
to separate the real from the apparent
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide Sada su naučnicu odlučili da u potragu za životom na Marsu krenu uz pomoć metana
Now the scientist has decided to start the search for life on Mars with the help of methane.
Reference Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 659, 860 CLARIN.SI
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 17
Type Derivation
Language Swahili
Lexeme 1 kata
Lexeme 2 kata shauri
Meaning 1 to cut
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide, to take decisions
Reference
Comment shauri 'to advice'
ACCEPTED Realization 18
Type Polysemy
Language Tibetan
Lexeme gcod-pa
Meaning 1 to cut (off) kham-tshad-do gcod-pa
to cut into pieces
Direction
Meaning 2 to solve (question) dogs gcod-pa
to settle (to remove) doubts
Reference
Comment Рерих 3, 33.
ACCEPTED Realization 19
Type Polysemy
Language Tigre
Lexeme batka
Meaning 1 to cut ʔəllā ʕə̣č̣̣č̣atki ʔəbtak (PPEA 12)
Let me cut off this tree of yours.
Direction
Meaning 2 to decide la-ʔaḥā ʔəgəl nosu ʔəgəl lənsəʔā batka (PPEA 28)
He decided to take the cow to himself.
Reference WTS: 287
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 20
Type Polysemy
Language Turkish
Lexeme cezmet-
Meaning 1 to chop off, to clip
Direction
Meaning 2 to take the final decision
Reference
Comment ТуРС 153.