to fly
→
to escape, flee
5 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | tebarrere | |
| meaning 1 | to fly | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to escape, flee | |
| reference | Gankin 1969 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | to fly | |
| meaning 1 | to travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to escape, flee | He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. “Fly, you fools!” he cried, and was gone. (J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring) |
| reference | OED NBARS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Internal cognates | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | fly | |
| lexeme 2 | flee | |
| meaning 1 | to o travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to escape | |
| reference | Kroonen 2013 | |
| comment | from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- 'to fly, flow, run' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hausa | |
| lexeme | gudù | |
| meaning 1 | flight | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to escape, flee | |
| reference | Awde 1996 | |
| comment | ||