to feel pity
→
to love
4 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Malagasy | |
| lexeme | manina | |
| meaning 1 | to feel pity | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to love, to have a strong desire | |
| reference | Korneev 1966: 179 | |
| comment | From hanina 'pity, compassion' |
|
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Rengao | |
| lexeme | hayằwʹ | |
| meaning 1 | to feel pity | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to love | |
| reference | Gregerson & Gregerson 2026: 183 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Syriac | |
| lexeme 1 | raḥem | |
| lexeme 2 | rəḥem | |
| meaning 1 | to have mercy upon | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to love | rəḥam lǝḥaḇrāḵ ʔaḵ nap̲šāḵ love thy neighbor as thyself |
| reference | Payne Smith: 537 | |
| comment | The source meaning is that of A (cf. Arb. rḥm 'to feel pity' BK 1:838, Lane 1055-56 etc.). Cf. Wierzbicka 1999: 293: Ifaluk fago "love/sadness/compassion", Rus. zhalost' "loving compassion". | |