to extinguish
→
to destroy, annihilate
8 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 | ||
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Buriat | |
| Lexeme | hунеехэ | |
| Meaning 1 | to extinguish | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to destroy, annihilate | |
| Reference | Čeremisov 1973: 697 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | ʔaṭfǝʔa | |
| Meaning 1 | extinguish, put out | la-ʔǝsāt ʔǝnta yǝnaddǝd yāṭaffǝʔā māy (Sir. 3:30): 'water extinguishes the burning fire' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | lay waste, destroy | ʔǝbna barad ʔaṭfǝʔa kʷəllo za-yǝśarrəṣ (Kuf. 48) 'the hail has destroyed everything which was blossoming' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LGz. 587; LLA 1250). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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' |
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| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||