to make big, large
→
to bring up (children)
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2852 | big | → | to grow up (intr.) | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Akkadian | |
| lexeme 1 | rubbû (D-stem) | |
| lexeme 2 | rubbû | |
| meaning 1 | to enlarge, to increase | tarpaša urabbi I enlarged the territory |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to bring up children; to raise a crop | šumma awīlum ṣeḫram ... ana mārūtim ilḳe-ma urtabbišu if a man adopts a young child and raises him |
| reference | CAD: r 37 | |
| comment | Both meanings - A and B - are also present in the Hebrew cognate rbh (qal-stem). |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | gross | |
| lexeme 2 | grossziehen | |
| meaning 1 | big, large | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to bring up (children) | |
| reference | ||
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