to meet
→
to happen
4 realizations
FAMILY: Afro-Asiatic
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 40 | to find | → | to meet | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | agäññä | |
| meaning 1 | to meet; to find | 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'). |
| reference | AED: 2021 | |
| comment | ||
| 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 | AED: 2060 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | ḳārā (qal-stem) | |
| meaning 1 | to meet, encounter | ʔašer ḳārəkā badderek wayəzannēb bəkā kol-hanneḥěšālīm ʔaḥarekā (Dt 25:18) Who met you on the road and attacked from the rear all the stragglers after you? (Gen. 42:49) |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to happen to | ha-ḳḳorot ʔotām What had happened to them |
| reference | HALOT: 1138-1139 | |
| comment | Cf. also the variant ḳrʔ (qal-stem) '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; to find | bəʔagaṭami räḵäbä to meet s.o. by accident |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to happen | ʔəntay räḵäbäkka What happened to you?' (lit. 'what met you?') |
| reference | TED: 585 | |
| comment | ||
В тигринья и амхарском еще значение находить