to fall down
↔
to make a mistake, be wrong
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | saḳaṭa | |
| Meaning 1 | to fall down | saḳaṭa fulān-un maġšiyy-an ʕalayhi ‘such a one fell down in a swoon’ |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to commit a mistake | saḳaṭa fī kalām-i-hi ‘he committed a mistake in his speech’ |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (Lane 1379-80). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | səḥta | |
| Meaning 1 | fall down | bāʕl la-ʔəmma dəḫḍa bəzuḫān yānaśśəʔəwwo ... nadāy-əssa la-ʔəmma səḥta yəraggəməwwo (Sir. 13:21) ‘if a rich man slipped, many (people) lift him up, and if a poor man fell then one curses him’ |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | to make a mistake, err | nabiy ʔəmma səḥta ʔana ʔasḥatkəwwo ‘if a prophet erred, then I made him err’ (Hez. 14:9) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGz.494, LLA 329-330). The meaning A is attested only marginally and is not given as a separate meaning in the dictionaries.. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigre | |
| Lexeme | ́ṣadfa | |
| Meaning 1 | to fall down | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to make a slip (of the tongue) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LH 648). | |