to hit the target
→
to please
2 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 47401) | ||
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| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | German | |
| language 2 | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | treffen | |
| lexeme 2 | трафить | |
| meaning 1 | to hit the target, to score; to meet, to encounter + | Er hat ins Schwarze (= ins Zentrum der Zielscheibe) getroffen. He hit the mark. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to please smb.; to be on the way, to strike intо | «Эта заноза-баба всем здесь командует!» — подумал Чижик не без некоторого презрительного сожаления к бывшему своему командиру. «Ей, значит, трафь», — мысленно проговорил он. (“Нянька”, 1895) |
| reference | Fasmer 1986: Том 4, 95 DWDS | |
| comment | Borrowed via Polish trafić ‘to hit the target’ from Middle High German trëffen. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 50980) | ||
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| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme 1 | погодити (pogoditi) | |
| lexeme 2 | угодити (ugoditi) | |
| meaning 1 | to hit the target | погодити некога лоптом to hit someone with a ball |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to please | Гледали су да му угоде у свему. They tried to please him in everything. |
| reference | РСЈ: 944, 1369 | |
| comment | ||