weak → stupid 6 realizations
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 бездушный (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

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