Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 (ID: 50868) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | to swallow | |
| meaning 1 | to swallow | Most snakes swallow their prey whole. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to believe a story, a statement etc. which is likely not true | I found his story a bit hard to swallow. |
| reference | LDOCE | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 50869) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | avaler | |
| meaning 1 | to swallow | avaler un cachet to swallow a pill |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to believe in something uncritically | avaler une histoire to buy into a story |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 (ID: 50875) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | schlucken | |
| meaning 1 | to swallow | die Tabletten soll man unzerkaut mit etwas Flüssigkeit schlucken you should swallow the tablets whole with a little liquid |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to trust | sie schien die Geschichte zu schlucken she seemed to be buying into the story |
| reference | Duden | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 (ID: 50967) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | bevesz | |
| meaning 1 | to swallow | A leánynak volt bátorsága tűrni a nyomort, de nem a gyalázatot; mérget vett be. (Jókai Mór) The girl had the courage to endure poverty, but not disgrace; she swallowed poison. (Mór Jókai) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to trust | Mindent bevesz, amit mondanak neki. (S)he believes in everything they tell him/her. |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 (ID: 50877) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | tragar | |
| meaning 1 | to swallow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to trust | Le contó una mentira y no se la tragó. He told her a lie, and she didn't believe in it. |
| reference | Real Academia Española Diccionario | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 (ID: 50873) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme | svälja | |
| meaning 1 | to swallow | svälj ner tabletten med ett glas vatten swallow the pill with a glass of water |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to trust | en historia som polisen inte svalde a story that the police didn't buy |
| reference | SAO | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 (ID: 51061) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | yutmak | |
| meaning 1 | to swallow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to fall for, to be taken in by, to believe | |
| reference | TDKS | |
| comment | ||
Also Occitan beure (Languedoc, Limousin) 'to drink' > (figuratively) 'to believe'. From Latin bibere 'to drink' (Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 114)