to float
—
to soar
11 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | galleggiare | |
| Meaning 1 | to float, keep, or have the ability to keep, on the surface of a liquid, a mass of water | il sughero, il ghiaccio, l’olio galleggia; un tronco d’albero galleggiava sul fiume cork, ice, oil floats; a tree trunk floated on the river |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | referring to an aerostat, stay suspended in the air without going up or down | |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Japanese | |
| Lexeme | tadayou (漂う) | |
| Meaning 1 | to float | 波間に漂う船 namima ni tadayou fune; 水のなかに漂うクラゲ mizu no naka ni tadayou kurage a boat drifting on the waves; a jellyfish floating in water |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to float (in the air) | 風に吹かれて漂う雲 kaze ni fukarete tadayou kumo a floating cloud, blown by the wind |
| Reference | BCCWJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Japanese | |
| Lexeme | ukabu | |
| Meaning 1 | to float | 水面にいっぱい花びらが浮かんでいた suimen ni ippai hanabira ga ukande ita lots of petals were floating on the water |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to float (in the air) | 青空に薄い雲が浮かんでいた aozora ni usui kumo ga ukande ita thin clouds were floating in the sky |
| Reference | BCCWJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khmer | |
| Lexeme | sat | |
| Meaning 1 | to float | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to float (in air) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Gorgoniev 1984, 700 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khmer | |
| Lexeme | ɒndaet | |
| Meaning 1 | to surface, to float (on the surface or with the current) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to float (in air) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Gorgoniev 1984, 813 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khmer | |
| Lexeme | rɔsat | |
| Meaning 1 | to float | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to drift, to float | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Gorgoniev 1984, 582 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Komi | |
| Lexeme | гӧвкъявны | |
| Meaning 1 | to float | юас гӧвкъялӧ бензин кень a thin layer of gasoline floats on the surface of the river |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to drift in the air | туй вылын лун-лун гӧвкъяліс бус dust swept over the road all day |
| Reference | Beznosikova et al. 2000 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Komi | |
| Lexeme | кӧвкъявны | |
| Meaning 1 | to float on the surface of any liquid (about oil, fats) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | (dialect) to drift in the air | |
| Reference | Beznosikova et al. 2000 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | yóu (游) | |
| Meaning 1 | to swim, to float | Yóuguò duì'àn (游过对岸), yú zài shuǐ lǐ yóu (鱼在水里游 ) to swim across to the other side; fish swimming in the water |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to soar, to hover, to drift in the air, to fly | Yóu yún (游云); yóu lóng (游龙) floating cloud; flying dragon |
| Reference | BKRS | |
| Comment | semantic 水 'water' + phonetic 斿 (Old Chinese *lu) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Portuguese | |
| Lexeme | volante | |
| Meaning 1 | floating | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | flying | |
| Reference | Feerštejn, Starec 2005 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tibetan | |
| Lexeme | aphyo-ba | |
| Meaning 1 | float freely, to toss (on water) | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to float (in air) | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Рерих VI, 141. The word means also 'fish'. | |