to tread
→
to refuse
2 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2596 | to cross, traverse | → | to infringe | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 2173) | ||
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| 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 | AED: 419 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 52140) | ||
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| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | попирать | |
| meaning 1 | to tread, to trample | попирать ногами to tread under foot |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to defy, to flout, to scorn, to violate | попирать права to violate the rights |
| reference | Fasmer 1986: III 327, 355 | |
| comment | From прать 'to tread under foot', from Old Slavic попьрати. |
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