to die
→
very, of high degree
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1091 | to die | → | to want | Open |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | deadly | |
| meaning 1 | in a way which suggests death | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | extremely, incredibly | John had got an impreſſion that Lewis was ſo deadly cunning a man, that he was afraid to venture himſelf alone with him. (1750 [1712], John Arbuthnot, “The Hiſtory of John Bull (chapter XVIII)”, in The Hiſtory of John Bull and Poems on ſeveral Occaſions […] , page 113, https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=enVioemal1sC) |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | Some adjectives commonly collocating with deadly: deadly serious, deadly clever, deadly good | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | si55 | |
| meaning 1 | (Wanrong dialect) dead | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Wanrong dialect) very | |
| reference | Heine, Kuteva et al. 2019: 69 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | смерть (smert') | |
| lexeme 2 | до смерти (do smerti) | |
| meaning 1 | death | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | strongly | до смерти хочется увидеть этот фильм I am dying to see this film! |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Yakut | |
| lexeme 1 | өл- | |
| lexeme 2 | өлөрдүү | |
| meaning 1 | to die | өлбүт киhи deadman |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very, strongly | өлөрдүү сылай to be dead tired |
| reference | Slepcov 1972: 285 | |
| comment | ||