busy
→
commerce, business
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 8224 | activity | → | commerce, business | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | ἀσχολία | |
| meaning 1 | work, job, occupation | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | trade | |
| reference | ||
| comment | From ἀ-σχολία lit. 'absense of rest' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | busy | |
| lexeme 2 | business | |
| meaning 1 | business | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | commercial activity | |
| reference | ODE | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | negotium | |
| meaning 1 | occupation, job | quanquam negotium est (I will help you) though I have things to do (Plautus) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | trade | |
| reference | ||
| comment | nec-otium 'absense of rest', a Greek calque | |
Бенвенист 1995, 105-110
The cognitive mechanism of this shift is as follows: busy > occupation, activity > commerce (as "the activity" by default).