to meet
→
to happen
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | agäññä | |
| Meaning 1 | to meet | and säw agəññətot mənnäw mən agäññähənna əndäzzih taläḳsalläh biläw ... 'one man, having met him and asking him: what is it? what happened to you so that you cry like this?' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to befall, happen to | tələḳ mäkära yagäññəšal 'much tribulation will befall you' (lit. 'much tribulation will meet/find you')' and säw agəññətot mənnäw mən agäññähənna əndäzzih taläḳsalläh biläw ... 'one man, having met him and asking him: what is it? what happened to you so that you cry like this?' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (K 2021). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Amharic | |
| Lexeme | gäṭṭämä | |
| Meaning 1 | to encounter, meet up with (people) | šängo gäṭṭämä 'the assembly met, is sitting' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to encounter, meet up with (good or bad times) | čəggər gäṭṭämäw 'he ran into difficulty, met with problems' (lit. 'a problem has met him')' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (K 2060). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme | ḳārā (qal) | |
| Meaning 1 | to meet, encounter | ʔašer ḳārəkā badderek wayəzannēb bəkā kol-hanneḥěšālīm ʔaḥarekā 'who met you on the road and attacked from the rear all the stragglers after you' (Dt 25:18) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to happen to | haḳḳorot ʔotām 'what had happened to them' (Gn 42:29) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (HALOT 1138-1139); cf. also the variant ḳrʔ (qal) 'to meet someone, encounter, to happen to someone' (HALOT 1131) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tigrinya | |
| Lexeme | räḵäbä | |
| Meaning 1 | 'to meet, to encounter' | bəʔagaṭami räḵäbä 'to meet s.o. by accident' |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to happen | ʔəntay räḵäbäkka 'what happened to you?' (lit. 'what met you?' |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | KT 585 | |
В тигринья и амхарском еще значение находить