empty
—
only
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | 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 ‘bare, ground, place where nothing grows’, leṭa həwa ‘clear air or sky’, leṭa wäräḳät ‘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) ‘and 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 | ||
| comment | K 123, LH 49 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme 1 | bakk | |
| lexeme 2 | bakka | |
| meaning 1 | empty | kəbaba ziʔahu bakk 'its disk is empty' (Hen 73:5) |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | only | ʕark la-səm bakka za-yətʕārrak 'a friend who is a friend only by name' |
| reference | ||
| comment | LLA 523 | |
| 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 | ||
| comment | KT 2424 | |