to blow → to speak 3 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Araki
lexeme soɾo
meaning 1 to blow
direction →
meaning 2 to talk, tell a story
reference François 2008: 183
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Semantic evolution
language Finnish
lexeme haastaa
meaning 1 to breath, to sigh
direction →
meaning 2 to say, to speak
reference
comment The first meaning is obsolete, it has been preserved in dialects. See the previous example for references
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Semantic evolution
language Finnish
lexeme puhua
meaning 1 to blow
direction →
meaning 2 to say, to speak
reference
comment The first meaning is obsolete, it has been preserved in dialects. Журавлев 2005, 762 со сслыкой на Хакулинен Л. Развитие и структура финского языка. 1955, ч. II, с. 12

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