can, to be able
→
to defeat, win
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Akkadian | |
| language 2 | Ugaritic | |
| lexeme 1 | leˀû | |
| lexeme 2 | lˀy | |
| meaning 1 | to be able (to do something), to be an expert, to master, to understand | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to conquer, to prevail | |
| reference | CAD: L 151 DUL: 488 | |
| comment | Only established WS cognate for Akkadian lexeme. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Belarusan | |
| lexeme 1 | магчы | |
| lexeme 2 | перамагчы, перамагаць | |
| meaning 1 | can, to be able | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to win | перамагчы ворага to defeat the enemy |
| reference | Slounik.org | |
| comment | Also colloquial змагаць 'to win the fight; to overcome' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | kəhla | |
| meaning 1 | to be able, to be capable | za zanta gabra kʷəllo yəkəl (Sirah 50:29) The one who did that can do everything. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to win | ʔəsma kəhəlka məsla ʔəgziʔabəḥer (Gen. 32:28) Because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome. |
| reference | LLA: 812 | |
| comment | PWS *khl “to be able” (Kogan 2015:86). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latvian | |
| lexeme 1 | varēt | |
| lexeme 2 | uzvarēt | |
| meaning 1 | can; to be able to | varēt staigāt, runāt to be able to walk, to talk |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to win | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Lithuanian | |
| lexeme 1 | galė́ti | |
| lexeme 2 | nugalė́ti | |
| meaning 1 | to be able to; can, may; to be allowed | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to overcome, to surmount; to defeat; (sports) to win | |
| reference | LRŽ | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Ukrainian | |
| lexeme 1 | могти (mohty) | |
| lexeme 2 | перемогти (peremohty) | |
| meaning 1 | to be able | Сто два роки бабусі моїй, і вона вже й ходить не може (Володимир Сосюра) My grandmother is one hundred and two years old, and she can no longer walk |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to win a battle or war; defeat the opponent; to become the first in sports competitions, games, etc. | [Айтра:] Наш владар в полі зустрівся з Ахіллесом. [Андромаха:] Ох!.. і що ж? [Айтра:] Здасться, він його перемагав (Леся Українка) [Aitra:] Our lord met Achilles in the field. [Andromache:] Oh!.. and what? [Aitra:] It seems he was defeating him |
| reference | SUM-11: 4, 774; 6, 221, 230 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Yakut | |
| lexeme | кыай- | |
| meaning 1 | to be able, to manage | үлэни кыай- to be capable to do the work |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to win, to defeat | өстөөҕү кыай- to defeat the enemy |
| reference | ||
| comment | ЯРС 203. Cf. Also the derivative кыамта 1) capability. кыамтата тиийбэт 'he does not have enough capabilities (to do smth)' 2) tech. 'capacity' мотуор кыамтата 'the motor capacity' | |