Number of realizations
9
to carry
→
pregnant
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Type | Semantic evolution | |
Language 1 | Old High German | |
Language 2 | Dutch | |
Lexeme 1 | tragan | |
Lexeme 2 | drachling | |
Meaning 1 | to carry | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | pregnant | |
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Comment | Buck 284 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | German | |
Lexeme 1 | tragen | |
Lexeme 2 | trächtig | |
Meaning 1 | to carry | den Sack auf dem Rücken tragen "to carry a sack on one's back" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | pregnant (animal) | die Katze ist schon wieder trächtig "the cat is pregnant again" |
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Comment | Duden 3937, 3939; Kluge 923 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | nosit' | |
Meaning 1 | to carry | Рабочие носили цемент |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to bear (a child) | "Родить ничего, но носить - вот что мучительно, - подумала она, представив себе свою последнюю беременность." Лев Толстой. Анна Каренина. ""Giving birth is nothing, but carrying a child in the womb is a torture", - she thought imagining her last pregnancy" |
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Comment | Cf. also вынашивать (ребенка) 'to bear a child', доносить/недоносить (ребенка) 'to give birth in time/to give birth prematurely', на сносях 'big with child', понести 'забеременеть' (to get pregnant). |
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Lithuanian | |
Lexeme 1 | nešti | |
Lexeme 2 | neščia | |
Meaning 1 | carry | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | pregnant | |
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Comment | Buck 284 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Arabic | |
Lexeme 1 | ḥamala | |
Lexeme 2 | ḥamalat | |
Meaning 1 | to carry | ḥamalat ḥaml-an ḫafīf-an "'she bore a light burden'" |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to become pregnant | ḥamalat walad-a-hā "'she became with her child'" |
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Comment | Lane 647, 649 |
Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Farsi | |
Lexeme | حمل ḥaml | |
Meaning 1 | carrying, transporting | حمل بار ḥaml-e bār " loading" |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | pregnant | حمل كاذب ḥaml-e kāḏab "pseudopregnancy" |
Reference | Rubinčik 1970 page 519 | |
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Comment | ПРС 279. Possibly a borrowing from Arabic (cf. The example above). |
Realization | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Breton | |
Lexeme 1 | dougen | |
Lexeme 2 | dougarez | |
Meaning 1 | bear | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | pregnant | |
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Comment | Buck 284.dougarez - fem. from douger 'bearer' |
Realization | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Ancient Greek | |
Lexeme 1 | φέρω | |
Lexeme 2 | φορτίον | |
Meaning 1 | to carry | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | fruit of the womb (lit. burden) | |
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Realization | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Karakhanid Uighur | |
Lexeme | кутур- | |
Meaning 1 | to carry | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to get pregnant | |
Reference | ||
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Comment | МК 3371 |