stranger, foreign
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strange
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | əngəda | |
| meaning 1 | stranger, guest, visitor, newcomer | ay əmmamma əngəda mähonəwo näw? Aie, mother, are you becoming a stranger to us? |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange, odd, queer, weird, unusual | əngəda səmetəmm yətänannäḳäññal 'and a strange feeling suffocates me'; |
| reference | AED: 1249 | |
| comment | From *ngd 'to travel' (CDG 390; Kogan 2015: 463). The third and apparently most frequent meaning is 'guest'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Catalan | |
| lexeme | estrany | |
| meaning 1 | alien (not part of a particular family, clan, nation, or other social group) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange; unusual; odd | |
| reference | DIEC2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ġarīb- | |
| meaning 1 | a stranger, foreigner; far from his home; (a man) not of one's own people; alien | ʔaḏāʕat ġazl-a-hā fī l-ġarāʔib-i She distributed her thread among the strange women’ (most of the women who spin for hire are strangers). |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | unusual, extraordinary, unfamiliar | kalimat-un ġarībat-un a strange, obscure word or expression |
| reference | Lane: 2243-44 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | strange | |
| meaning 1 | (obsolete) belonging to another country; foreign. | How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land? ( (King James Bible, Psalms 137:4) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | étrange | |
| meaning 1 | (obsolete) stranger, foreign | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange | |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Galician | |
| lexeme | estraño | |
| meaning 1 | strange; foreign; stranger; foreigner, outsider | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | weird, odd, peculiar | |
| reference | DDDDLG | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | extraneus | |
| meaning 1 | stranger, foreign | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange | |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | extraño | |
| meaning 1 | foreign, alien, extraneous | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange, unusual, odd, weird, bizarre | |
| reference | DRAE | |
| comment | extranjero 'foreign' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swahili | |
| lexeme | zungu | |
| meaning 1 | strange, foreign | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | strange | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Polikanov | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | garip | |
| meaning 1 | stranger, foreign | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | strange | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 314 | |
| comment | ||