to bark
→
to tell lies
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | woof | |
| Meaning 1 | to bark (of a dog) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to tell lie | Quit woofing! You sound silly. |
| Reference | Rakhilina et al. 2015: 39 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Lithuanian | |
| Lexeme | am̃bryti | |
| Meaning 1 | to bark, to bow-wow | Šuo visas rytas am̃brija. The dog barks all morning. |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to talk piffle | |
| Reference | LRŽ: 25 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | брехать (brehat') | |
| Meaning 1 | to bark | Слышь, собака на дворе брешет. Can you hear it? The dog in the yard is barking |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to lie (substandard) | Только бандит и предатель может брехать в такой серьезный час, — будто нам не справиться с немцами.(Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy) Only a bandit and a traitor can lie in such a serious hour that we will not defeat the Germans. |
| Reference | BAS: 1, 627 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ukrainian | |
| Lexeme | брехати (brechaty) | |
| Meaning 1 | to bark | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to lie | |
| Reference | ESSJa: 3, 13-14 | |
| Comment | ЭССЯ 3, 13-14. | |