to extinguish
→
to destroy, annihilate
9 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2601 | to go out (of light) | → | to disappear | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | awäddämä | |
| meaning 1 | to put out (a fire, a cigarette) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to devastate, to ravage, to demolish, destroy utterly | |
| reference | AED: 174 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | aṭäffa | |
| meaning 1 | to extinguish | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to destroy, annihilate | |
| reference | AED | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Batsbi | |
| lexeme | xaldar | |
| meaning 1 | to extinguish (fire) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to destroy, annihilate | |
| reference | Bertlani (ed.) 2018: 203 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Buriat | |
| lexeme | hунеехэ | |
| meaning 1 | to extinguish | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to destroy, annihilate | |
| reference | Čeremisov 1973: 697 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | extinguish | |
| meaning 1 | to put out (fire) | to extinguish the fire. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to destroy, annihilate | Socialism extinguished these archaic customs |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | ʔaṭfǝʔa | |
| meaning 1 | to extinguish, put out | la-ʔǝsāt ʔǝnta yǝnaddǝd yāṭaffǝʔā māy (Sir. 3:30) Water extinguishes the burning fire. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to lay waste, destroy | ʔǝbna barad ʔaṭfǝʔa kʷəllo za-yǝśarrəṣ (Kuf. 48) The hail has destroyed everything which was blossoming. |
| reference | CDG: 587 LLA: 1250 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | löschen | |
| meaning 1 | to put out, extinguish | ein Feuer löschen 'to put out fire'; |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to wipe off (what has been written), to annihilate | eine Eintragung im Strafregister löschen 'to erase a note in a penalty register' |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | gasit' | |
| meaning 1 | to extinguish, put out (fire) | гасить огонь 'to put out fire' |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to weaken, to prevent from growing, to stop | гасить творческие порывы 'to stop creative impulses'; 'to weaken the sound' |
| reference | ||
| comment | The expression "гасить долги" 'to annihilate debts' is obviously a calque from European languages. Cp. also "гасить почтовую марку" (= to make invalid a post stamp) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Yaqui (Hiaki) | |
| lexeme | tuucha | |
| meaning 1 | to extinguish (fire, light), turn off electricity | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to erase | |
| reference | Dictionary Yaqui: 169 | |
| comment | ||