thin (of a long object)
→
quiet (vs. loud)
2 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 2503) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | daḳ | |
| meaning 1 | fine grained, powdery | ū-bō śēʕār ṣāhōb dāḳ (Lev. 13:30) And there is a thin yellowish hair in it. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | soft, low (voice) | wə-kə-ʔābāḳ daḳ hămōn zārāyik (Is. 29:5) And the turmoil of your enemies became as a fine dust. |
| reference | HALAT: 220 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 8892) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | dünn | |
| meaning 1 | thin | dünner Faden thin thread |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | weak, quiet (voice) | dünne Stimme weak, low voice |
| reference | Duden | |
| comment | Presumably the same type of polysemy in the Eng. thin. |
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