to answer
—
to help, aid
2 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Icelandic | |
| language 2 | Middle English | |
| lexeme 1 | gegna | |
| lexeme 2 | gaynen | |
| meaning 1 | (obsolete) to answer | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to aid, help | |
| reference | ISLEX MED | |
| comment | from Proto-Germanic *gaginjaną 'to go against; to meet, to encounter' from *gagin 'towards, against' + *-janą. Vladimir Orel (2003), “*gagnjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 122 |
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