to tie
→
to conceive, become pregnant
3 realizations
FAMILY: Afro-Asiatic
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 23433) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | ḳʷaṭṭärä | |
| meaning 1 | to tie | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to be gravid (animal) | |
| reference | AED: 834 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 52114) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | Modern Written Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | ḥabala (حَبَلَ) | |
| lexeme 2 | ḥabila (حَبِلَ) | |
| meaning 1 | to tie, to net | ḥabl-u l-llahi Islam (lit. the rope of Allah) |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to conceive, become pregnant | ḥabal-un bilā danas-in the virgin birth (lit. birth without dirt) |
| reference | Baranov: I 154-155 | |
| comment | From PCS *ḥbl 'to be pregnant, conceive; to have labor pains' [SED I No. 21v; Kogan 2015: 189; HALOT 286]. In Classical Arabic ḥabala means 'to be pregnant' [Lane 504], though in BK dictionary the first meaning of the verb is quoted as 'être plein, être rempli' (to be full, filled with) [BK I 370]. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 301) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | ḳʷaṣärä | |
| meaning 1 | to knot, tie tightly | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to conceive | ḳʷaṣärät She conceived, has become pregnant. |
| reference | TED: 1063 | |
| comment | ||
Cf. also Proto-Central-Semitic ḥbl ‘to be pregnant’, likely related to PS ḥabl- ‘rope’ [Kogan 2015:189].