The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

to wait → ambush 2 realizations Multi-area

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2
2475		to lie (posture)	→	ambush	Open
2474		to see/to look at	→	ambush	Open
2476		to hide (tr.)	→	ambush	Open
2472		to sit	→	ambush	Open
2473		forest	→	ambush	Open

Comment

ACCEPTED Realization 1
type		Cognates
language 1		Amis
language 2		Kankanabu
lexeme 1		mitala
lexeme 2		tumátara
meaning 1	to wait
direction	—
meaning 2	ambush
reference
comment		It goes back to the Proto-Austronesian *taRa 'to wait'. Сирк 2008, 145

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type		Derivation
language		Modern Greek
lexeme 1		καρτερῶ
lexeme 2		καρτέρι
meaning 1	to wait
meaning 2	ambush
reference
comment		Buck 1417