Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 (ID: 52547) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Geez | |
| language 2 | Akkadian | |
| lexeme 1 | ṣaḥafa | |
| lexeme 2 | ṣeˀ/ḫpu | |
| meaning 1 | to write | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | clay tag with a seal impression or a short inscription, sealed letter | |
| reference | CDG: 552 CAD: Z 86 AHw.: 1091 | |
| comment | See more: Marine Béranger (2023). Correspondance privée en Mésopotamie. Le cas des lettres-ṣeḫpum, ou notes épistolaires du XVIIe siècle a.C. In: Madalina Dana (ed.). La correspondance privée dans la Méditerranée antique : sociétés en miroir, Scripta Antiqua (168), Ausonius éditions, pp. 73-88. |
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| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 52548) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | kataba (كَتَبَ) | |
| lexeme 2 | maktūb- (مَكْتُوب) | |
| meaning 1 | to write | kataba wa qaraʔа to write and to read (i.e. to be a literate one) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | letter (text), message | maktūb-u t-tawṣiy-at-i letter of recommendation |
| reference | Lane: 2589 Baranov: 676-677 Kogan 2015: 213 | |
| comment | Also, Geez kətāb 'writing, message, letter, book' [CDG 297], borrowed from Arabic. The same is true of related nominal and verbal forms in modern EthS [Leslau 1990: 347]. The Arabic verb itself has often been thought to be borrowed from Aramaic [Jeffery 1938: 248‒249]. |
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| NEW Realization 3 (ID: 52546) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | писать | |
| lexeme 2 | письмо | |
| meaning 1 | to write | Я к Вам пишу - чего же боле? Что я еще могу сказать? ("Евгений Онегин", А. С. Пушкин) I write to you — no more confession |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | letter (text), written message | Я отнёс письмо на почту. I took the letter to the post. |
| reference | Fasmer 1986: 266, 268 | |
| comment | ||