lean
—
infertile (soil)
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1078 | lean | → | fatless | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | maigre | |
| Meaning 1 | lean | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | infertile (soil) | |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | mager | |
| Meaning 1 | lean, meagre | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | barren, infertile | magerer Boden thin [exhausted] soil |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Also the It. magro, Fr. Maigre | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | dürr | |
| Meaning 1 | lean | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | lean (soil) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | báo | |
| Meaning 1 | thin | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | barren, infertile (earth) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | БКРС 5384 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | toščij | |
| Meaning 1 | lean | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | lean | тощая почва lean soil |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | delgado | |
| Meaning 1 | thin, lean | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | poor, lean (soil) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Narumov 1995: 268 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | ʕabärä | |
| Meaning 1 | 'to become or grow thin, lose weight (person), to become gaunt (cattle)' | ʔəzom ḳʷälaʕu bəzäy mäṭän ʕabirom ʔalläwu 'these children are extremely thin' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'to dry out, become bare of vegetation (soil)' | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (KT 1873). Сf. ʕabar 'infertile, barren, dry (field, soil)' (KT 1873) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | räḳḳiḳ̆ | |
| Meaning 1 | 'thin' | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'barren (soil)' | räḳḳiḳ̆ bota 'place where the soil is infertile' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (KT 560) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | arık | |
| Meaning 1 | lean | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | barren, infertile | arık toprak thin soil |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||