to speak
→
to promise
6 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | φάσκω | |
| meaning 1 | to speak | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to promise | φ. θήσειν ἀθάνατόν τινα to promise to make smn immortal (Homer) |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ingush | |
| lexeme | дош | |
| meaning 1 | word | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | promise | |
| reference | Bekova et al. 2009 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Nganasan | |
| lexeme | буодя | |
| meaning 1 | to speak | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to promise | |
| reference | Kosterkina, Momde, Ždanova 2001: 25 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | zice | |
| meaning 1 | to speak | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (folk) to promise | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | vorbă | |
| meaning 1 | word | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vow, promise | |
| reference | DEX98 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | вещать | |
| lexeme 2 | обещать | |
| meaning 1 | to speak | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to promise | |
| reference | ESSJa: 31, 31 | |
| comment | Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic обѣщати (oběštati), from Proto-Slavic *oběťati, from *ob- + *věťati. |
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Russian давать слово 'to promise', lit. 'to give a word'