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 (Jn 1:5) And they threw the things that were in the shiff, into the water in order to make it lighter from them. |
| 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 (Sam. II 6:22) 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. |
| reference | HALOT: 1104 | |
| comment | Cf. Chaha ḳʷərər 'light, respectful, humble' (CDG I 91), going back to the same root *ḳll. |
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| 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 | Lane: 769 | |
| comment | 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 | ||