to want
→
even (particle)
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 10000 | to love | → | even (particle) | Open |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme 1 | volo | |
| lexeme 2 | vel | |
| meaning 1 | to want | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | even (conj) | vel sapientissimus potest errare |
| reference | Dvoreckij 1976: 1060 Lewis, Short Glare: 2021–2022 | |
| comment | from Proto-Italic *wels 'you wish', thus originally the second-person singular present active indicative form of volō. The semantic development may have been helped by the fortuitous similarity to -ve 'or'. | |