Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 50117) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Chuvash | |
| lexeme | те | |
| meaning 1 | to want | унта каяс тетĕп I want to go there |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | to say | мĕн терĕ-çав? what did he say? |
| reference | Электронлă сăмахсар | |
| comment | Андреев, И.А.; Горшков, А.Е.; Иванов, А.И. и др. Чувашско-русский словарь; под редакцией М.И. Скворцова. М., «Русский язык», 1985. The meaning 'to want' occurs in expressions with verb те + participle on -ас (-ес). From Proto-Turkic *tē- 'to say, call' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 14728) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | dire | |
| meaning 1 | to tell | Il m'a dit qu'il viendrait. He told me that he would come. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to like | Ça te dirait de rester ce soir ? Would you like to stay at my place tonight? |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 50113) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | vouloir | |
| meaning 1 | to want | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to insist | Il
veut absolument avoir déjà rencontré cet homme quelque part He absolutely insists he has already met this man somewhere. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | TLFi |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 50112) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | wollen | |
| meaning 1 | to want | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to say | Sie
will es nicht getan haben She claims she didn't do it. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 50115) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kpelle | |
| lexeme | kɛ/gɛ | |
| meaning 1 | (Northern) to want | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | (Northern) to tell | |
| reference | Vydrin Comparative Mande | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 50114) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | volo | |
| meaning 1 | to want | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to claim | Plato deum sine corpore esse vult (Cicero De natura deorum 1.12(30)) Plato holds that god is entirely incorporeal |
| reference | Dvoreckij 1976 | |
| comment | Dell’Oro, Francesca. 2026. “From volition to reportativity: the reportative uses of Latin volo in synchrony and diachrony (with remarks on German wollen and French vouloir).” Journal of Linguistics. doi:10.1017/S0022226725101035 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 7 (ID: 50116) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Maninka | |
| language 2 | Bandi (Gbandi) | |
| lexeme 1 | kɛ́ | |
| lexeme 2 | kɛ/ɣɛ | |
| meaning 1 | to want | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to tell, say | |
| reference | Vydrin Comparative Mande | |
| comment | Maninka-Mori |
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Dell’Oro, Francesca. 2026. “From volition to reportativity: the reportative uses of Latin volo in synchrony and diachrony (with remarks on German wollen and French vouloir).” Journal of Linguistics. doi:10.1017/S0022226725101035