to feel hunger
↔
to want
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1211 | to feel thirsty | → | to want | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | peinao | |
| meaning 1 | to be hungry | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to desire, to long for | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Gothic | |
| lexeme 1 | grēdus | |
| lexeme 2 | gairnjan | |
| meaning 1 | hunger | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | desire | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Buck 332 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Irish Gaelic | |
| lexeme 1 | ocras | |
| lexeme 2 | caraim | |
| meaning 1 | hunger | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | love, desire | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Buck 332 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | esurio, -ire | |
| meaning 1 | to be hungry | cum esuriente panem suum dividere 'to share one's bread with the one who is hungry' |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to want, desire, long for | nil ibi, quod nobis esuriatur, erit 'there is nothing which would be desirable for us' |
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| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Old East Slavic | |
| language 2 | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | алкати | |
| lexeme 2 | alkat' | |
| meaning 1 | to starve, to famish | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to desire | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||