to smell bad
—
bad
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2935 | sweet-smelling, fragrant | → | good | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Akkadian | |
| lexeme | baʔāšu | |
| meaning 1 | to smell bad | ina pīšu ibtanašu [it] smells bad from his mouth |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to be of a bad quality | ūmka urkû alla maḫrî ibiʔiš your future is even worse than your past |
| reference | CAD | |
| comment | CAD b 4. Also note bīšu 'malodorous; of bad quality' (CAD b 270). Meaning B is present in New Babylonian dialect, so it is possible to make claims on evolution. But cf. Fronzaroli (CLCS VII) 1971:605, where both meanings are reconstructed for the PS *bʔš. For congates in Semitic with both meanings cf. http://sed-online.ru/reconstructions/1108. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | stink | |
| meaning 1 | to stink | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to be dislikeable | |
| reference | Sweetser 1990: 37 | |
| comment | ||