light (of weight)
→
unimportant, slight
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 849 | heavy (of weight) | → | important | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme 1 | ḳll (hif) | |
| Lexeme 2 | ḳll (nif) | |
| Meaning 1 | to lighten, to make lighter | wa-yyāṭilū ʔet-ha-kkēlīm ʔăšer bā-ʔāˇniyyā ʔel-ha-yyām lə-hāḳēl mēʕălēhem 'and they threw the things that were in the shiff, into the water in order to make it lighter from them' (Jn 1:5) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to know oneself to be insignificant, to demean oneself | ū-nəḳallotī ʕōd mizzōt wə-hāyītī šāpāl bə-ʕēyāy wə-ʕim-hāʔămāhōt ʔăšer ʔāmartə ʕimmām ʔikkābēdā 'and I will make myself despicable more than that and I will become worthless in my own eyes, but with the girls that you have spoken of, with them I will be respected' (Sam. II 6:22) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (HALOT 1104). | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Buriat | |
| Lexeme | hэбхи | |
| Meaning 1 | light (of weight) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | unimportant, slight | |
| Reference | Čeremisov 1973: 701-702 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ḫaffa | |
| Meaning 1 | to be light | ḫaffa l-mīzān-u 'the balance had one of its two scale light, so that it rose' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be light in estimation, lightly esteemed, of little account | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Lane 769). Cf. also ḫafīf- 'light' (ibid. 770) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | خفیف xafif | |
| Meaning 1 | light, light-weight | خفیف و ثقیل xafif va ṯaqil light and heavy |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | insignificant | زلزلۀ خفیف zelzele-ye xafif minor earthquake |
| Reference | Rubinčik 1970: 561 | |
| Comment | ПРС 315.A borrowing from Arabic | |
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | leicht | |
| Meaning 1 | light (of weight) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | unimportant, slight | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Karaim | |
| Lexeme | йэнгъиль | |
| Meaning 1 | light | |
| Meaning 2 | unimportant | йэнгъиль эть- to neglect (lit. to make light) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | КРПС 272. | |
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Korean | |
| Lexeme | 가볍다 | |
| Meaning 1 | light (of weight) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | unimportant | |
| Reference | Корейско-русский учебный словарь | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | лёгкий | |
| Meaning 1 | light (of weight) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | unimportant, slight | лёгкая простуда |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | лак (lak) | |
| Meaning 1 | light (of weight) | лак кофер, лак као перо
light suitcase, as light as feather |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | unimportant, slight | лаки рањеници slightly wounded |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 624-625 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | hafif | |
| Meaning 1 | light (of weight) | hafif bavul a light (not heavy) suitcase |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | small amount, a bit | 1) Hafif bir aksanın var, değil mi?
2) hafiften hafife bir şarkı tutturdular 1) You have a slight accent, don't you? 2) they started to sing in demivoice |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 374 | |
| Comment | ||