empty
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only
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 3451 | naked, bare | → | only | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Amharic | |
| language 2 | Tigre | |
| lexeme 1 | leṭa | |
| lexeme 2 | leṭā | |
| meaning 1 | unoccupied (place); without harness or saddle (mount) | leṭa mədr leṭa həwa leṭa wäräḳät bare, ground, place where nothing grows; clear air or sky; blank, unlined paper |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | only | wahətu ʔəlli ʔamʕit marrəḥakkum ʔəlu leṭā təlaw bellom (PPEA I 16); daʔam ʔət ʕəkakom ʔašarrəʔət leṭa ṣanḥayom (PPEA I 16) Аnd he told them: ‘these bowels will lead you to him, just follow (it)'; but only extrements were left for them in the skin-vessels. |
| reference | AED: 123 WTS: 49 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme 1 | bakk | |
| lexeme 2 | bakka | |
| meaning 1 | empty | kəbaba ziʔahu bakk (Hen 73:5) Its disk is empty. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | only | ʕark la-səm bakka za-yətʕārrak a friend who is a friend only by name |
| reference | LLA: 523 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | ṭəraḥ | |
| meaning 1 | empty | ʔab ṭəraḥu gäza in an empty house |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | only, solely, alone | bəzuḥat kiḵädu däliyom näbäru; ḥaleḳ̌a gən ḥadä ṭəraḥ sädidu There were many who wanted to go, but the chief sent only one. |
| reference | TED: 2424 | |
| comment | ||