to blow
→
to speak
3 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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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 | ||
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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comment | The first meaning is obsolete, it has been preserved in dialects.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 | ||
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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comment | The first meaning is obsolete, it has been preserved in dialects.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 |