to hope
—
to wait
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Evenki | |
| lexeme | алāт- | |
| meaning 1 | to hope | упкачин класс Женядук аяя алатчэӈкин the whole class hopes for Zhenya |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to wait | онёлон дежурнай бикиттун комнатадун часвэ-вэл алачирка in the duty officer's room the artist waited for about an hour |
| reference | Boldyrev 2000: 1, 28 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Latin | |
| language 2 | Spanish | |
| lexeme 1 | spero, -are | |
| lexeme 2 | esperar | |
| meaning 1 | to hope | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to wait | |
| reference | ||
| comment | (Glare 1803) Cf. also Fr. espérer 'to hope', obs. 'to wait'. | |
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lithuanian | |
| lexeme | láukti | |
| meaning 1 | to hope | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to wait | |
| reference | LRŽ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Old East Slavic | |
| lexeme | чаяти | |
| meaning 1 | to expect | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to hope | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Cf. also Фасмер 4, 321. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swahili | |
| lexeme | taraji | |
| meaning 1 | to hope | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to wait | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Polikanov | |