to mill, grind
→
to destroy, annihilate
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | to crush | |
| meaning 1 | to press, to grind, | crushed stone |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to suppress, to smash | to crush a rebellion |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | färtätä | |
| meaning 1 | 'to break, crumble up engera-bread; to crumble, pulverize dry things'' | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | 'to destroy, annihilate utterly' | |
| reference | ||
| comment | KT 2665 | |