The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

to see/to look at → ambush 2 realizations FAMILY: Indo-European

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2
2473		forest	→	ambush	Open
2471		to wait	→	ambush	Open
2472		to sit	→	ambush	Open
2475		to lie (posture)	→	ambush	Open
2476		to hide (tr.)	→	ambush	Open

Comment
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ACCEPTED Realization 1
type		Derivation
language		Romanian
lexeme 1		a pîndi
lexeme 2		pîndă
meaning 1	watch for, spy
direction	→
meaning 2	ambush
reference
comment

ACCEPTED Realization 2
type		Borrowing
language 1		Swedish
language 2		Latvian
lexeme 1		gluna
lexeme 2		glūnēt
meaning 1	squint at
meaning 2	watch, lurk
reference
comment		Also the noun. Glūnētuve