to hear / to listen
→
to find out
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cognates | |
| Language 1 | Jewish Aramaic | |
| Language 2 | Akkadian | |
| Lexeme 1 | šmʕ | |
| Lexeme 2 | šemû | |
| Meaning 1 | to hear | mylyn dšmʕ mn ʔbwy; petâ-ma ul išemmā uznāya Things that he heard from his father; my ears are open but cannot hear |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to learn; to be informed | ʔt šmʕ mynh trty; ašamme-ma šīmum ina maḫīrim mād You learn from it two things; I hear that there is much buying (going on) in the marketplace |
| Reference | DJPA: 558 CAD: š 2, 277-278 | |
| Comment | From Proto-Semitic *šmʕ 'to hear'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Khoekhoe | |
| Lexeme 1 | ǁnâu | |
| Lexeme 2 | ǁnâuǃgûsī | |
| Meaning 1 | to hear, listen | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to go to find out | |
| Reference | Haacke Khoekhoe 2002: 288 | |
| Comment | compound ǁnâuǃgûsī from ǁnâu "to hear" + ǃgû "go, leave" + sī "come" |
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