to perceive smell
↔
to emit smell
12 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | mirisati | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | to emit smell | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | to smell | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to have smell | The drunkard smelt like a brewery. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | to scent | |
| meaning 1 | to detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell; to inhale in order to detect the scent of (something) | The hounds scented the fox in the woods. I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete) to have smell | I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor? (1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al.) |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Gagauz | |
| lexeme | kokmaa | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to emit smell | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Gagauzça-rusça-romınca sözlük = Гагаузско-русско-румынский словарь = Dicţionar găgăuz-rus-român / Fundaţia pentru susţinerea şi dezvoltarea ştiinţei şi culturii găgăuzilor "CAINAC"; alcăt. P. Cebotari, I. Dron. - Ch.: PONTOS, 2002 | |
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Gagauz | |
| lexeme | kok- | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to emit smell | |
| reference | Gajdarži et al. 1973: 274 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | riechen | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | an einer Rose riechen to smell a rose |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to have smell | Er riecht nach Knoblauch he smells like garlic |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Karaim | |
| lexeme | къокъла- | |
| meaning 1 | to sniff | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to smell | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Greek | |
| lexeme | μυρίζω | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to have smell | |
| reference | DSMG | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | mirosi | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive an odor | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to have (and spread) an odor | Floarea miroase. The flower smells. |
| reference | DEX98 | |
| comment | transitive mirosi only refers to the intentional, directed action of smelling; unintentional olfactory perception is denoted by the more general word simți | |
| NEW Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | мирисати (mirisati) | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | Напред, вран че , немој стати, / Не мириши траву, не осећај вир. Go ahead, crow, don't stop, / Don't smell the grass, don't feel the breeze. |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | to emit smell | Ружа мирише. Соба мирише на просуто вино и зифт. The rose smells. The room smells of spilled wine and pitch. |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 713 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme | lukta | |
| meaning 1 | to perceive smell | Lukta gärna på blommorna! Feel free to smell the flowers! |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to have smell | Det luktar bränt i köket. It smells like something is burned in the kitchen. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | änäwä | |
| meaning 1 | ‘to sniff, smell (s.th.)' | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | ‘to smell (give off a good or bad smell)’ | |
| reference | ||
| comment | (KT 2519) | |