empty
→
unmarried, single, bachelor
4 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 (ID: 52694) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Central Franconian | |
| lexeme | leddig | |
| meaning 1 | empty | Mer koofen ongerwäs noch en Fläsch Weng on Blome, datt mer do net met leddije Häng aankomme. We’ll buy a bottle of wine and flowers on the way, so we don’t arrive there with empty hands. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | unmarried, single | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 52695) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | ledig | |
| meaning 1 | (archaic) empty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | unmarried; (officialese, more specifically) never having been married | |
| reference | DWDS English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 (ID: 52696) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ottoman Turkish | |
| lexeme | boş (بوش) | |
| meaning 1 | empty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (of a woman) unmarried | |
| reference | Redhouse 1890: 400 | |
| comment | ||