to tie
→
to conceive, become pregnant
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | ḳʷaṭṭärä | |
| meaning 1 | to tie | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to be gravid (animal) | |
| reference | AED: 834 | |
| comment | ||
Cf. also Proto-Central-Semitic ḥbl ‘to be pregnant’, likely related to PS ḥabl ‘rope’ (Kogan 2015:189)