to clean
→
to investigate
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | aṭṭara | |
| meaning 1 | to purify, filter or distill, to remove impurities | ṭäǧǧ aṭṭara 'to filter, purify ṭäǧǧ (mead)' |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to investigate, check on s.th., look into (a matter) | lebočču yagäňňutən aṭṭartäw kähedu bähʷala... 'after the thieves left, having examinated what they had found…'' |
| reference | ||
| comment | (K 2110). | |