dry
→
obstinate, persistent
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | däräḳ | |
| meaning 1 | 'dry, dried, dried-out' | däräḳ ənč̣ät 'dry wood' |
| meaning 2 | 'stubborn, persistent (person)' | däräḳ balagär; 'stubborn peasant'; |
| reference | ||
| comment | (K 1744); сf. also Tigrinya.däräḳ 'dry, arid, stony (soil), dry (grain); unyielding, stubborn' (KT 2079) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme 1 | nəḳuṣ | |
| lexeme 2 | nḳaṣ | |
| meaning 1 | 'dry, dried, dried up' | bəsänki nəḳuṣ yənäddəd rəḥus 'on account of dry [sticks] wet [ones] will burn' (KT 1320) |
| meaning 2 | 'harsh, hard, tough; obstinate, pigheaded, self-willed, stiffnecked, stubborn' (KT 1320) | |
| reference | ||
| comment | (KT 1320) | |