to see/to look at
↔
witness
2 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | شَهِدَ šahida I-stem | |
| lexeme 2 | شَاهَدَ šāhada III-stem | |
| meaning 1 | to witness | šahida bi-l-llah-i He swore to God. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to see, to look at | šāhadū bi-ʕyuni-him haḏā They saw it with their own eyes. |
| reference | Baranov: 418 | |
| comment | PArm *ŝhd 'to witness' [Kogan 2015:396]. The only cognate of the root is Arb. šahida with the same meaning [Lane 1609]. The III-stem in Arabic is characterized by the high level of lexicalization. | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Old English | |
| language 2 | English | |
| lexeme 1 | *weid- | |
| lexeme 2 | witness | |
| meaning 1 | to see/to look at | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | witness | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||