to mill
→
to oppress
1 realization
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Tigrinya | |
Lexeme | däḳ̃ʷäsä | |
Meaning 1 | ‘to pound, grind to a powder (salt, pepper etc.), to pulverize, crush to bits’ | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | ‘to repress, subdue, suppress, quash (a political activity, a rebellion); to stunt (development)’ | kämzäyənsəlṭən kämzäyənʕəmmər doḳ̃isomnā ‘they crushed us so that we cannot become civilized and flourish’ |
Reference | ||
Comment | KT 2107 |