to tread
→
to infringe
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2596 | to transit | → | to infringe | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | räggäṭä | |
| meaning 1 | 'to trample, step on, tread on); to pass around the confines of a field' | säw siräggəṭäw dəḳəḳḳ yǝlal ‘when s.o. steps on it, it crumbles to bits’ |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | 'to defy, refuse or reject with scorn' | yäsäṭṭuññən məkər räg; ‘I [am] rejecting the advice you gave me’; |
| reference | ||
| comment | K 419 | |