to milk → to spawn 2 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme доить (doit')
meaning 1 to milk
direction —
meaning 2 to spray out spawn сельдяшка как повернула по воде, так и задоила
The herring turned in the water and started spraying out spawn actively.
reference
comment in the idioms of Kolyma
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Yakut
lexeme ya-
meaning 1 to milk
meaning 2 to spray out spawn
reference
comment Аникин 2000, 188

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