The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

forest → ambush 2 realizations FAMILY: Indo-European

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2
2472		to sit	→	ambush	Open
2471		to wait	→	ambush	Open
2474		to see/to look at	→	ambush	Open
2476		to hide (tr.)	→	ambush	Open
2475		to lie (posture)	→	ambush	Open

Comment
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ACCEPTED Realization 1
type		Derivation
language		Italian
lexeme 1		bosco
lexeme 2		imboscata
meaning 1	forest
direction	→
meaning 2	ambush
reference
comment		Also the Fr. embuscade, Sp. emboscada, from Old Fr. Is also the Eng. Ambush

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type		Derivation
language		Welsh
lexeme 1		llwyn
lexeme 2		cynllwyn
meaning 1	grove, bush
direction	→
meaning 2	ambush
reference
comment		A calque from a Roman source