to swallow
→
to trust
5 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||