to go around → to defend 2 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Classical Arabic
lexeme ḥāṭa
meaning 1 ‘to surround, encompass, environ, enclose, hem in’ ḥāṭū bil-balad-i
‘they surrounded the sides of the town’
direction →
meaning 2 ‘to guard, keep safely, protect, take care’ ʔaḥūṭu ʕirḍ-ī
‘I guard my honour’
reference
comment Lane 670-671. Cf. also ḥawwaṭa ‘to build a wall around something’, ḥāʔiṭ- ‘a wall’ (active participle from ḥāṭa)
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Derivation
language Wolane
lexeme 1 zäwärä
lexeme 2 azwawärä
meaning 1 ‘go around, turn around’
direction →
meaning 2 ‘to guard a house at night by going around it’
reference
comment LGur. 717

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