weak
→
stupid
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Fula | |
| lexeme | duppa | |
| meaning 1 | to be sickly, feeble | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to be silly, dim | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ФРФС 142 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Latin | |
| language 2 | French | |
| lexeme 1 | debilis | |
| lexeme 2 | débile | |
| meaning 1 | weak, feeble | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | stupid | |
| reference | Sakhno 2009: 44 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | bezdušnyj | |
| meaning 1 | soulless, heartless | Эх ты, тварь бездушная, только полезь - я тебе сразу раздавлю. Женись на здоровой, куды бездушную-то? You, heartless wretch, just swing at me, and I will flatten you! Marry a healthy woman, why a feeble one? |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | stupid | Ить вон ничего не знает, вон бездушный. But he does not know anything, he is soulless. |
| reference | ||
| comment | dialectal word (1 - Kalug., Kostrom., 2 - Kalug.) СРНГ 2, 190 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swahili | |
| lexeme | anzali | |
| meaning 1 | weak (feeble) man | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | stupid (ignorant) person | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Polikanov | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Tigre | |
| language 2 | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | ḥamḳa | |
| lexeme 2 | ḥamuḳa | |
| meaning 1 | 'to be weak, to pine away' (LH 61) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | 'to be foolish, stupid' (Lane 645) | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Udihe | |
| lexeme | э̄дэ- | |
| meaning 1 | weak, feeble | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | fool | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Кормушин 1998, 313 | |